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Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Nov 13th 2024



Celebration of Research 2024
February 12th 2024

Dr. Leeana Peters and Dr. Puchong Thirawatananond graduate PhD program
May 4th, 2023

13th Annual College of Medicine Celebration of Research Poster Session at the O’Connell Center February 28, 2023




The FOCIS 2022 Annual Meeting is THE meeting in translational immunology. FOCIS brings together leading clinicians and researchers from over 30 countries delivering the latest breakthroughs across immunology. June 21-24. San Francisco, USA.
FOCIS 2022
Poster of Distinction Awards
Puchong Thirawatananond
Selective CD226 Knockout on Regulatory T cells Reduces Diabetes in Female NOD Mice
Matt Brown
Human CD4+CD25+Regulatory T Cells Deficient of CD226 Demonstrate Increased Purity and Lineage Stability Following Ex Vivo Expansion for Adoptive Treg Therapy

FOCIS 2022
Oral Presentations
Melanie Shapiro
Autoimmunity Risk Loci Tagged to CIITA and MHC Class II Impact CD8+ T Cell and Monocyte HLA-DR Expression
Matt Brown
Human CD4+CD25+Regulatory T Cells Deficient of CD226 Demonstrate Increased Purity and Lineage Stability Following Ex Vivo Expansion for Adoptive Treg Therapy

FOCIS 2022 Poster Presentations
Leeana Peters
Engineering Optimized Autoreactive T cells for the Study of Type 1 Diabetes Pathogenesis
Miguel Medina-Serpas
Integrating spatial transcriptomics and single-cell RNA sequencing to spatially characterize human lymphatic tissue
2022 Graduates with Honor Thesis
Lindsey Sachs
Matt Brown
Juan Martin Arnoletti

T1D news
Dr. Melanie Shapiro awarded NIDDK K99/R00
Dr. Melanie Shapiro Post doctoral associate Melanie Shaprio has been awarded the prestigious National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases…

13th Annual College of Medicine Celebration of…
February 28, 2023

FOCIS 2022

June 27, 2022
‘Transformational’ cell-based therapy ‘effective’ in helping those with hard-to-control type 1 diabetes

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A new therapy for treating Type 1 diabetes

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Pancreas on a chip – Beta Cell Transplantation

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International Clinical Centers
Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet
The University of Florida (UF) is one of twenty-five Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet International Clinical Centers at the forefront of type 1 diabetes research. Led by Desmond Schatz, MD, the TrialNet team at UF is dedicated to preventing type 1 diabetes and stopping disease progression by preserving insulin production before and after diagnosis.
