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Roy receives JDRF funding to develop implants to treat type 1 diabetes

Tue Sep 1, 2015
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Silicon nanopore membranes developed in the Roy Lab will provide material to encapsulate pancreatic islets.

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Shuvo Roy, PhD, has received a three-year $1 million grant to create surgically implantable capsules of donor pancreas cells to free type 1 diabetes patients from daily insulin injections and the disease’s potentially life-threatening complications. The work is being funded by JDRF, the largest charitable supporter of type 1 diabetes research.

Shuvo Roy, PhD

Roy
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I am a bioengineer working on medical device development to address clinical needs by leveraging my background in MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) along with advances in biomaterials, electronics, and nanotechnology to advance health world-wide.

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