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BCBC Website Version 4.11 Released
Apr 16, 2013 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.11 of the Betacell.org website. As always, we welcome your feedback. New Features and Improvements Antibodies (4) Genomics Stud...
Islet Study Group Annual Meeting
Sep 27, 2013 - Nashville, TNThis workshop will present cutting edge developments in rapidly developing fields such as beta cell programming, regeneration, epigenetics, non-coding RNAs, and genetic targets in Type 2 diabete...
BCBC Website Version 4.10 Released
Feb 26, 2013 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.10 of the Betacell.org website. As always, we welcome your feedback. New Features and Improvements Antibodies (1) Mouse ESC Lin...
NIEHS Symposium on Unlocking the Promise of Stem Cells
Apr 11, 2013 - Research Triangle Park, NCThe NIEHS is hosting a stem cell sympoium, to be held at NIEHS on April 11-12, 2013. Registration is free and open to the public. Additional details are available at http://tools.niehs.ni...
Funding Opportunities - Iacocca Family Foundation
Jan 07, 2013 - Nashville, TNFor calendar year 2013, the Iacocca Family Foundation will be accepting grant applications to support innovative and promising diabetes research programs and projects that will lead to a cure for typ...
New NIDDK Funding Opportunity Announcements
Dec 20, 2012 - Bethesda, MDOn behalf of the NIDDK, please be advised of three new funding opportunities: PAR-13-047 - Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research (T32) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/...
BCBC Website Version 4.9 Released
Nov 20, 2012 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.9 of the Betacell.org website. As always, we welcome your feedback. New Features and Improvements Antibodies (8) Mouse ESC Line...
Imaging the Pancreatic Beta Cell - Announcing the 5th NIH/JDRF Workshop
Apr 15, 2013 - Bethesda, MDRegistration Register at http://www.scgcorp.com/betacell2013 . Agenda Talks and posters will be selected from submitted abstracts. Deadline for Abstract submission is Febr...
New NIDDK Funding Opportunity
Oct 11, 2012 - Bethesda, MDThe NIDDK has just released an RFA that is meant to stimulate research and technology development to promote the early-stage pharmacological validation of drug targets and accompanying small molecule...
BCBC Website Version 4.8 Released
Aug 07, 2012 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.8 of the Betacell.org website. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please note that this release announcement includes changes in the 4.7.1 minor ...
Open Competition for the Targeted Resource Generation Projects (TRGP) Program
Jun 13, 2012 - Nashville, TNPeriodically, the BCBC solicits projects through an open competition process to provide support for the development of new reagents and resources that are needed to achieve the overall goals of the c...
BCBC Website Version 4.7 Released
Apr 24, 2012 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.7 of the Betacell.org website. As always, we welcome your feedback. New & Improved Features New Bioimages resource collec...
Keystone Symposia “Advances in Islet Biology”
Mar 25, 2012 - Montery, CAAnnouncing Keystone Symposia’s Meeting on “Advances in Islet Biology” Apply for a scholarship, submit an abstract and register for Keystone Symposia’s conference on &l...
BCBC Website Version 4.6 Released
Jan 17, 2012 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.6 of the Betacell.org website. As always, we welcome your feedback . New & Improved Features New Research Highlight...
New Human ES Cell Lines Approved for NIH-Funded Research
Jan 02, 2012 - Bethesda, MDFour new human ES cell lines, some of which have been used beta cell differentiation protocols, have been approved for use in NIH-funded research. Cell Line NIH Registration Number P...
JDRF Funding Opportunity - EOI in Encapsulation Technology
Dec 02, 2011 - New York, NYJDRF is soliciting Expression of Interest (EOI) to encourage collaborations among bioengineers, chemists, immunologists, transplant researchers, and pancreatic beta cell biologists to incorporate eng...
Workshop in Programming Beta Cell Development, Impairment and Regeneration
Oct 23, 2011 - LO-Skolen, Helsingør (Elsinore), DenmarkA workshop,“Programming Beta Cell Development, Impairment and Regeneration,” will be held at LO-Skolen in Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark on October 23 to 26, 2011. It is open for al...
BCBC Website Version 4.5 Released
Aug 02, 2011 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.5 of the Betacell.org website. As always, we welcome your feedback . New & Improved Features BCBC 2.0 Resources Rel...
2011 TCPA Program Award Recipients Announced
Aug 02, 2011 - Nashville, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Transformative Collaborative Project Award (TCPA) program. The Transformative Collaborative Project Award ...
BCBC sponsors SDB Satellite Symposium – Translating Pancreatic Development to Treat Diabetes
Jul 21, 2011 - Nashville, TNHyatt Regency Chicago, Regency D 8:30am to 5:00pm The Beta Cell Biology Consortium will sponsor a satellite meeting prior to the 70 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology. The...
Standards and Guidelines for ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq Now Available
May 19, 2011 - Nashville, tNThe Bioinformatics and Epigenomics Workgroup (WG2) has developed documents to assist the various BCBC groups who perform ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq to do so in a consistent manner. The documents are ava...
New 2011 BCBC Funding Opportunities - P&F and TCPA Programs
Apr 29, 2011 - Nashville, TNThe BCBC is pleased to announce two funding opportunities. 2011 Pilot and Feasibility Program The BCBC Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program provides research support for a limited tim...
BCBC Website Version 4.4 Released
Apr 19, 2011 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.4 of the Betacell.org website. There are some big changes in this release to support the management of Project Deliverables and Resource Requests...
JDRF Funding Opportunity - Pathways and Targets for Promoting Physiologic Beta Cell Regeneration
Apr 14, 2011 - New York, NYThe JDRF is requesting Letters of Intent for applications from single investigators or teams of investigators to develop and conduct studies towards the goal of discovering novel targets and pathwa...
BCBC Website Version 4.2 Released
Jan 12, 2011 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.2 of the Betacell.org website. For most of the site this is primarily a maintenance release; we are doing a lot of code organization and consolida...
Integrated Islet Distribution Program (IIDP) launches a new Pilot Program
Dec 14, 2010 - Duarte, CAToday the Integrated Islet Distribution Program (IIDP) at City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, CA announced the launch of a new Pilot Program for new and early stage investigators. According to a...
JDRF Applauds Congress for Passage of $300 Million for Type 1 Diabetes Research
Dec 10, 2010 - New York, NYA Statement from JDRF President and CEO, Jeffrey Brewer Today Congress passed a multi-year renewal of the Special Diabetes Program (SDP), ensuring that studies on promising diabetes treatments a...
BCBC Website Version 4.1 Released
Dec 07, 2010 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of version 4.1 of the Betacell.org website. Now available are three workspaces to support document sharing for the BCBC Workgroups: In vitro generation of g...
BCBC Website Version 4.0 Released
Sep 28, 2010 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce a major release to the Betacell.org website. This version release (4.0) introduces significant new features supporting the coordination of the third funding cycle of ...
Beta Cell Imaging Symposium to Precede Annual EASD Meeting
Sep 19, 2010 - Stockholm, SwedenA symposium focused on beta cell imaging is sheduled on September 19, 2010, in Stockholm, Sweden just prior to the annual 46 th annual EASD meeting. The "Symposium on Beta-Cell Imaging" will focu...
BCBC Website Version 3.9 Released
Aug 01, 2010 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce several significant enhancements to the BCBC and BCBC Genomics websites as "Version 3.9", which were necessary for the third funding cycle of the BCBC. We have associate...
NIDDK Announces Successful Applicants for BCBC 3.0 Participation
Jul 29, 2010 - Nashville, TNThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has announced the successful applicants for participation in the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) third funding cycle (...
BCBC 3.8 Website Released
Jun 02, 2010 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce several significant enhancements to the BCBC and BCBC Genomics websites as "Version 3.8". NEW RESOURCES Antibodies The Antibody Core (Ole Madsen) has made avai...
Request for Public Comments - Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee (NIH)
Feb 26, 2010 - Bethesda, MDThe Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases Subcouncil of the NIDDK’s National Advisory Council is soliciting comments on the current draft of the Diabetes Research Strategic Plan entit...
BCBC 3.7 Website Released
Feb 03, 2010 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce several significant enhancements to the BCBC and BCBC Genomics websites as "Version 3.7". GENE NETWORK VISUALIZATION The interactive gene network graph and underlyi...
NOD ES Cells Available from the Jackson Laboratory
Jan 05, 2010 - Bar Harbor, MEJackson Laboratories is now distributing the Rudi Jaenisch derived NOD/ShiLtJ mouse ES cells ( Hanna J, Markoulaki S, Mitalipova M, Cheng AW, Cassady JP, Staerk J, Carey BW, Lengner CJ, Foreman R, Lo...
2009 ARRA Signature Project Award Recipients
Oct 05, 2009 - Nashville, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Signature Project Program. The ARRA Signature Project Program...
BCBC 3.4 Website Released
Sep 08, 2009 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce several significant enhancements to the BCBC and BCBC Genomics websites as "Version 3.4". GENE NETWORK VISUALIZATION The interactive gene network graph has numerous im...
NIDDK RFA for BCBC Participation Now Available
Aug 17, 2009 - Nashville, TNThe NIH has released the Request for Applications (RFA-DK-09-011) for participation in the next cycle of the BCBC, available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-09-011.html ...
BCBC 3.3 Website Released
May 21, 2009 - Nashville, TNDear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce several significant enhancements to the BCBC and BCBC Genomics websites. With this comes many new features and data, as described below.&nb...
2009 SCRBCB Award Recipients
Mar 04, 2009 - Nashville, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2009 Seeding Collaborative Research in Beta Cell Biology Program. The SCRBCB program provides research support f...
Defining a Beta Cell Graft for Diabetes Treatment
May 25, 2009 - Nashville, TNThe JDRF Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes is pleased to announce a special training course entitled Defining a Beta Cell Graft for Diabetes Treatment that will be held in Ghent, Belgium o...
BCBC 3.1 Website Released
Feb 23, 2009 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce several significant enhancements to the BCBC and BCBC Genomics websites. With this comes many new features and data, as described below. A RICHER HOMEPAGE The BCBC ho...
Imaging the Pancreatic Beta Cell, 4th Workshop
Apr 06, 2009 - Washington, DCThe purpose of the ‘Imaging the Pancreatic Beta Cell, Fourth Workshop'' to be held on April 6-7, 2009, is to explore the considerable progress and foster collaborative research in the field of ...
New Study and Features on BCBC website
Nov 17, 2008 - Nashville, TNWe are please to announce the release of new data and features on the Beta Cell Biology Consortium website. Beta Cell Genomics A new study, Stimulation of human and rat islet beta-cell prolife...
2008 BCBC Pilot & Feasibility Award Recipients
Oct 29, 2008 - Nashville, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Pilot & Feasibility Program ( www.betacell.org/pilot ). The P&F Program is intended to (1) allow ex...
The new BCBC and Beta Cell Genomics website platform
Oct 02, 2008 - Nashville, TN and Philadelphia, PAThe BCBC Coordinating Center is pleased to announce a major upgrade to both the Beta Cell Biology Consortium and EPConDB websites. This upgrade is the result of a year-long collaborative effort be...
New study available on Ngn3-mediated differentiation of mESC
Oct 01, 2008 - PhiladelphiaA new study has been added to Beta Cell Genomics on Ngn3-mediated differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into endocrine pancreas progenitors ( Serafimidis et al., Stem Cells 2008 ). The stu...
2009-2010 Seeding Collaborative Research in Beta Cell Biology Program
Aug 26, 2008 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce the release of a new Seeding Collaborative Research in Beta Cell Biology (SCRBCB) program. The SCRBCB program provides research support for a limited time (18 months) ...
2008 Pilot and Feasibility Program
Jul 03, 2008 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce a new Pilot and Feasibility Program that will bring additional investigators into the BCBC. The Pilot and Feasibility Program will provide research support for a limited ...
Farewell PancChips - Distribution and support to end on July 1, 2008
May 15, 2008 - Philadelphia, PAAs of July 1 st 2008, the BCBC Functional Genomics Core will discontinue the distributiion and support of the Mouse and Human PancChip and BCBC Promoter Chip arrays. Orders placed on or before...
EMBO Conference on the Molecular & Cellular Basis of Regeneration & Tissue Repair
Oct 05, 2008 - Palma de Mallorca, SpainThe 2008 EMBO conference, “The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Regeneration and Tissue Repair”, aims to bring together top-level researchers in the fields of regeneration, tissue repair,...
Workshop - Diabetes Genes and Beta Cell Function: How can we assemble the puzzle?
Apr 21, 2008 - Bethesda, MDThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is hosting a workshop on April 21-22, 2008, entitled “Diabetes Genes and Beta Cell Function: How can we assemble the...
Adenovirus Collection Released to the Public
Apr 04, 2008 - Nashville, TNWe are pleased to announce through a cooperative effort the availability to academic investigators of 117 replication-deficient recombinant adenoviruses that were generated and characterized in the l...
Strategies in Directed Differentiation of ES Cells into Mature Cell Types for Therapy
May 28, 2008 - Gentofte, DenmarkThe JDRF Center for Beta Cell Therapy in Diabetes is pleased to announce a special training course entitled " Strategies in Directed Differentiation of ES Cells into Mature Cell Types for Thera...
JDRF Releases Two New Funding Opportunities in Beta Cell Biology
Jan 15, 2008 - New York, NYThe Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has just announced the release of two new funding opportunities in the area of beta cell biology. Biomarkers in Type 1 Diabetes and its Complicati...
US Congress Renews Special Diabetes Research Funding Initiative
Dec 20, 2007 - Washington, DCUS Congress has passed a one year extension to the Special Diabetes Program . This action will allocate $150 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund critical research towards ...
BCBC Genomics Releases New Features and Data
Dec 03, 2007 - Nashville, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) has released several improvements to the genomic resources of the BCBC, which reflect the joint efforts of both the Vanderbilt University informatics and Univer...
Type 1 Diabetes Pathfinder Award
Nov 28, 2007 - Bethesda, MDThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a new funding opportunity entitled the Type 1 Diabetes Pathfinder Award . This Request for Application (RFA) was developed as part of the Strateg...
New NIH Funding Opportunities in Epigenetics and Epigenomics
Nov 26, 2007 - Bethesda, MDThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released six new funding opportunities in the area of Epigenetics and Epigenomics, under the " Roadmap Epigenomics Program ." Follow the links bel...
Postdoctoral Positions - Pancreas Development and Human ES Cell Differentiation
Nov 06, 2007 - Lund, SwedenPostdoctoral positions are available in the development biology research program at the Lund Stem Cell Center. The research projects focus on pancreas development. In vivo (mouse models) and in vitro ...
EPConDB Version 3.44 Released
Mar 28, 2007 - Philadelphia, PAVersion 3.44 of the EPConDB website has been released. EPConDB is a resource of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium and contains information on genes expressed in cells of the pancreas and their tra...
Open Rank - Diabetes and Obesity Research
Feb 07, 2007 - Los Angeles, CAThe Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes in the Department of Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine is seeking applications for two tenured or tenure-trac...
Transdifferentiation of Beta Cells Training Course
Jun 26, 2007 - Bath, UKThe "Transdifferentiation to Beta Cells" training course will be held on June 26-28, 2007 at the University of Bath located in Bath, United Kingdom . This course is being organized by Jonathan Sl...
Strategic Plan for Type 1 Diabetes Research
Jan 03, 2007 - Bethesda, MDThe Strategic Plan for Type 1 Diabetes Research has been posted on the National Instititute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) website. This plan will serve as a scientific ...
Scientific Data Manager - Available Position
Oct 25, 2006 - Nashville, TNThe Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology is seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to work within the Beta Cell Biology Consortium Coordinating Center to facilitate the exchange a...
Group Leader Position: Pancreas and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Developmental Biology
Sep 25, 2006 - Lund, SwedenLund University, located across the bridge from Copenhagen Airport, is Scandinavia’s largest Institution for education and research. Consisting of 20 research groups and more than 140 peop...
EASD 42nd Annual Meeting & Islet Study Group Symposium
Sep 14, 2006 - Copenhagen, DenmarkThe 42 nd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes The 42 nd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting will be held...
Antibodies GN-ID4, GS-9A8 and Nkx6.1 Now Available to the Public
Apr 28, 2006 - Nashville, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) Antibody Core is pleased to announce that monoclonal antibodies GN-ID4 ( AB1921 ), GS-9A8 ( AB2009 ) and a series of Nkx6.1 ( AB2021 , AB2022 , AB2023 , AB2...
Cell Programming to Beta Cells Training Course
Apr 18, 2006 - Strasbourg, FranceThe Cell Programming to Beta Cells training course will be held on April 18-20, 2006 at the Forum of the Faculty of Medicine located in Strasbourg, France. This course is organized by Gerard Gradw...
Programming Pancreatic Beta Cells Workshop
Oct 18, 2006 - El Perello, SpainA workshop entitled Programming Pancreatic Beta Cells will be held on October 18-22, 2006 at the Hotel Les Oliveres , located on the coast near El Perello , just south of Barcelona, Spain. ...
Imaging the Pancreatic Beta Cell in Health and Disease, 3rd Workshop
Apr 24, 2006 - Washington, DCThe third Imaging the Pancreatic Beta Cell in Health and Disease Workshop will be held on April 24-25, 2006 at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC . The purpose of the workshop is ...
Mouse PromoterChip BCBC-5B Available
Jan 04, 2006 - Philadelphia, PAThe Functional Genomics Core of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) has announced the release of Mouse PromoterChip BCBC-5B. The Mouse PromoterChip BCBC-5B complements the Mouse PromoterChip...
Resource Centers for Human Pancreatic Islets
Nov 02, 2005 - New York, NYThe Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International(JDRFI) funds programs and resource centers where investigators can obtain human pancreatic islets in the US, Canada, or Europe. One such progr...
Conference Announcement: Concurrent Keystone Symposia on Islet Biology
Feb 23, 2006 - TAOS, NMToward Understanding Islet Biology " Toward Understanding Islet Biology " will be held in Taos, New Mexico, on February 23-28, 2006 at the Keystone Symposia. Organizers: Lydia Aguilar-Br...
Neurogenin-3 Monoclonal Antibody Now Available to the Public
Sep 19, 2005 - NASHVILLE, TNThe first BCBC monoclonal antibody reacting towards mouse Neurogenin-3 ( AB2013 ) has been transferred from the BCBC Antibody Core to the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank ( DSHB F25A1B3 ) at ...
Mouse PromoterChip BCBC-5A Available
Aug 16, 2005 - PHILADELPHIA, PAAs of July 2005 the Mouse PromoterChip BCBC-5A has been completed and is now available for distribution. This chip was developed by Dr. Klaus Kaestner''s group in the Department of Genetics at the Un...
NIDDK Announces Successful Applicants for BCBC Participation
Jun 15, 2005 - NASHVILLE, TNThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has announced the successful applicants for participation in the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC), beginning August 1, ...
New release of the EPConDB resource
May 31, 2005 - NASHVILLE, TNA new release of the EPConDB resource now offers new microarray experiment datasets and additional query capabilities. New Microarray Studies ? Four new microarray studies have been added to ...
EPConDB and T1DBase to join forces
Apr 04, 2005 - NASHVILLE, TNEPConDB ( Endocrine Pancreas Consortium Database ) and T1DBase ( Type 1 Diabetes Database ) are important resources for scientists who study the development of the pancreas and the causes and progres...
New NIDDK Beta Cell Regeneration for Diabetes Therapy RFA
Mar 08, 2005 - BETHESDA, MDThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) announces RFA-DK-05-007 "Beta Cell Regeneration for Diabetes Therapy". This new RFA invites applications to characterize t...
Major Upgrade of the BCBC Website Unveiled
Mar 07, 2005 - NASHVILLE, TNA leading objective of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) website is to provide information resources that facilitate the dissemination of reagents, research data and information. In response t...
ICR Offers Human Islets at No Charge
Jan 13, 2005 - BETHESDA, MDIslet Cell Resource Centers (ICRs) are now offering human islets for basic research at no charge to qualified academic centers and scientists. ICRs are supported by both the Juvenile Diabetes ...
NIDDK Cellular Niches Workshop
Jan 11, 2005 - BETHESDA, MDThe National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) announces a workshop focusing on cellular niches - the factors and cellular microenvironments that modulate stem cell ...
EPConDB Releases New Microarray Studies for Download
Nov 08, 2004 - NASHVILLE, TNEPConDB has released nine new microarray datasets, bringing the total to twelve, at the BCBC-EPConDB website for download. EPConDB allows you to download all of the raw microarray expression data o...
NIH Releases New Addendum to RFAs for Participation in the Beta Cell Biology Consortium
Oct 05, 2004 - BETHESDA, MDThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has released an addendum to RFAs DK-04-017 and DK-04-018. Addendum to BCBC RFAs - View with Adobe Acrobat Reader...
Human Stem Cell Culture Training Opportunities
Jul 15, 2004 - NASHVILLE, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium is pleased to announce two new stem cell-related training programs now available to consortium members and other qualified investigators whose wor...
NIH Releases RFAs for Participation in the Beta Cell Biology Consortium
Jun 21, 2004 - BETHESDA, MDThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) invites new and the competitive continuation of applications to participate in the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC). Th...
Regeneration of Beta Cell Function in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus - An Interdisciplinary Team Approach
Apr 16, 2004 - NEW YORK, NYThe goal of the JDRF Regeneration of Beta Cell Function (RBCF) special program is to discover and develop therapeutics for regeneration of human beta cells in type 1 diabetes. An integrated interdisc...
New Pilot & Feasibility Program for Stem Cell Research
Mar 18, 2004 - NASHVILLE, TNThis Pilot and Feasibility Program sponsored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) will provide research support for a limited time (1-2 years) to enable eligible investigators to explo...
BCBC Announces Migration to New Website Servers
Feb 23, 2004 - NASHVILLE, TNOn February 23, 2004 the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) migrated its website ( www.betacell.org ) from shared server space at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to two stand alone Compaq Proli...
BCBC Announces 2004 Seeding Collaborative Research in Beta Cell Biology Awards
Feb 20, 2004 - NASHVILLE, TNWe are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2004 Seeding Collaborative Research in Beta Cell Biology (SCRBCB) awards. The main purpose of this program is to stimulate new scientific collaboratio...
Hedgehog Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer
Jan 15, 2004 - NASHVILLE, TNThe hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway plays a critical role during pancreas development. Experimental and genetic evidence suggests that Hh activity needs to be tightly regulated in order to ensure pro...
Human PancChip 1.0 Now Available
Jan 15, 2004 - PHILADELPHIA, PAAs of January 2004 the Human PancChip 1.0 has been completed and is now available to request via the BCBC website at http://www.genomics.betacell.org/gbco/ . This chip was developed by Dr. Klaus Kae...
BCBC Second Annual Investigator Retreat a Success
Dec 16, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNThe second Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) investigator retreat was held on October 2-5, 2003, at the Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort in Atlanta, Georgia. BCBC investigators and members of t...
Global Expression Analysis of Gene Regulatory Pathways During Endocrine Pancreatic Development
Dec 03, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNGu G, Wells JM, Dombkowski D, Preffer F, Aronow B, Melton DA Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA To define genetic pathways that regulate development of...
Human Islet Cells Made Available for Non-Clinical Research Through ICR Centers
Aug 27, 2003 - BETHESDA, MDPatients having Type I diabetes mellitus have achieved long-term independence from exogenous insulin after receiving human pancreatic islet cell transplants. To expand upon this observation, 10 Islet...
Berrie Initiative on Cell-Based Therapies for Diabetes
Aug 13, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNIn the context of a new research program that is part of the Berrie Initiative on Cell-Based Therapies for diabetes, collaborating laboratories at the Columbia University Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center...
New NIDDK Sponsored RFA on Human Islet Biology
Jul 14, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNIn 2002, the NIDDK sponsored a workshop "Beta Cell Biology in the 21st Century: Engineering a Pathway to Greater Understanding". An important goal of the workshop was to identify areas of research op...
Innovative Partnerships in Type 1 Diabetes Research
Jul 01, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Eye Institute (NEI), National Heart, Lung, and Bl...
BCBC Announces 2003 Pilot & Feasibility Awards
Jun 18, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNTwenty-seven pilot and feasibility studies were received in response to our request for applications. The pilot and feasibility studies are intended to: (1) allow exploration of possible innovative n...
Administrative Supplements to Support Lineage Analyses
May 29, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNThe National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) invites NIDDK-funded investigators to submit supplement requests to fund projects that follow cell lineage progression dur...
Seeding Collaborative Research in Beta Cell Biology (SCRBCB)
May 29, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) announces funding of a new program entitled Seeding Collaborative Research in Beta Cell Biology (SCRBCB). For fiscal years 2004-5, funds are available to suppl...
ADA Islet Cell Replacement RFA
Mar 31, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNThe American Diabetes Association (ADA) has recently released a request for applications for studies focused on islet cell replacement. This initiative provides funding for clinical and basic science...
Noteworthy Commentaries on the Derivation of Insulin-producing Cells from ES Cells
Mar 06, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNSeveral reports have described the derivation of insulin-containing cells from embryonic stem cells and putative adult stem cells. Of note, the recent results of Rajagopal et al.1 strongly suggest th...
BCBC First Annual Investigator Retreat a Success
Feb 10, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNDuring the days of November 20-23, 2002, members of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) assembled in Leesburg, Virginia, to hold their first annual investigator retreat. Situated at the Lansdowne...
Pilot and Feasibility Program 2003
Feb 01, 2003 - NASHVILLE, TNThis Pilot and Feasibility Program is intended to provide research support for a limited time (one or two years) so that eligible investigators can explore the feasibility of a concept rela...
Opportunity in Diabetes Research
Dec 01, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FACULTY POSITIONS IN DIABETES RESEARCH Applications are invited for full-time tenured track positions at the faculty level in the Diabetes Research and Traini...
Stemness: Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells
Oct 12, 2002 - ScienceRamalho-Santos M, Yoon S, Matsuzaki Y, Mulligan RC, Melton DA. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA The transc...
Experimental control of pancreatic development and maintenance
Sep 17, 2002 - PNASProc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 99, Issue 19, 12236-12241, September 17, 2002 Andrew M. Holland*, Michael A. Hale*, Hideaki Kagami*, Robert E. Hammer §,¶ , and Raymond J. MacDonald*, Dep...
Pancreas Research Paves Way for Diabetes Treatment
Sep 01, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNChris Wright (Vanderbilt University), Principal Investigator for the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) and colleagues are making research advances in identif...
BCBC Steering Committee Meeting - June 18, 2002
Jun 20, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNAt the December 2001 meeting of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) Steering Committee, a decision was made to expand the Monoclonal Antibody Core (MabCore), which is part of the progra...
New Findings on Adult and Embryo Stem Cells
Jun 20, 2002 - MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MNCatherine Verfaillie, M.D., Director of the Stem Cell Institute (SCI) and Principal Investigator for the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) and her lab are reporting that adult bone marrow cells can...
BCBC Approves Funding for New Antibody Core Facility
Jun 20, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNAt the December 2001 meeting of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) Steering Committee, a decision was made to expand the Monoclonal Antibody Core (MabCore), which is part of the program led by V...
BCBC Announces 2002 Pilot & Feasibility Awards
Jun 18, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNThirteen Pilot and Feasibility Studies were received in response to our request for applications. These Pilot and Feasibility Studies are intended to: (1) allow exploration of possible innovative new...
BCBC Approves Funding for New Microarray Core Facility
May 01, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNAt the December 2001 meeting of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) Steering Committee, a number of issues were discussed with the aim of generating a central bioinformatics and microarray resour...
Pilot and Feasibility RFA Announcement
Feb 01, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNThis Pilot and Feasibility Program is intended to provide research support for a limited time (one or two years) so that eligible investigators can explore the feasibility of a concept related to the...
BCBC Official Kickoff Meeting
Jan 01, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNThe Steering Committee of the Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) held its first Official Meeting in Dulles, VA on December 13, 2001. The meeting was centered around the...
BCBC Launches New Website
Jan 01, 2002 - NASHVILLE, TNThe Beta Cell Biology Consortium (BCBC) launched their new website on January 1, 2002. The site will act as an information and communication springboard for all BCBC members, as well as the general p...
