Islets for Research: Nothing Is Perfect, but We Can Do Better

Nano, Rita
Kerr-Conte, Julie A.
Bosco, Domenico
Karlsson, Marie
Lavallard, Vanessa
Melzi, Raffaella
Gmyr, Valery
Mercalli, Alessia
Berney, Thierry
Pattou, François
Korsgren, Olle
Piemonti, Lorenzo

¹Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
²European Genomic Institute for Diabetes, Université de Lille, INSERM, CHU de Lille Faculté de Médecine, Lille, France
³Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
⁴Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Corresponding author: Lorenzo Piemonti, e-mail; [email protected]

Received April 09, 2019; Accepted May 21, 2019; previously published online July 15, 2019

Diabetes 68(8):p 1541-1543, August 2019. | DOI: 10.2337/db19-0367

In December 2018,DiabetesandDiabetologiabegan requiring authors of papers reporting data obtained from studies on human islets to report critical characteristics of the human islets used for research. The islet community was asked to provide feedback on it. Here is the contribution by the European Consortium for Islet Transplantation.