Pancreas and Beta Cell Replacement

Pancreas and Beta Cell Replacement is the inaugural volume of the  Regenerative and Transplant Medicine series. The idea for this new book  series spawned from the observation that the regenerative medicine field  is progressing at such a fast pace that the way we currently think and  practice transplant medicine is rapidly changing, faster than we could  ever imagine. This series was therefore conceived to bring together  experts from both the transplant and regenerative medicine fields, to  share knowledge first, but also to introduce the transplant audience to  the remarkable progress that has occurred in regenerative medicine over  the past few decades. At the same time, we intend to illustrate to  researchers and operators in the regenerative medicine field the  numerous platforms that transplant medicine offers for the application  of their technologies. To the publisher and the editors of this series  and volumes there is no doubt that regenerative medicine will shape and  define the future of transplant medicine.

This volume focuses on  pancreas and beta cell replacement and illustrates how progress in  biomaterial sciences, stem cell biology, gene editing, cell, tissue and  organ bioengineering and regeneration, along with advances in  xenotransplantation are revolutionizing the field. Written by the  world’s experts in the fields of pancreas, islet and  xenotransplantation, as well as regenerative medicine, it represents a  valuable educational tool for those in the fields of clinical  transplantation, researchers in the field of regenerative medicine,  transplant medicine, diabetes and immunology, as well as for medical and  health science students, those in academia, the biotech industry and  regulatory agencies working to advance the field. At the end of the  book, it will become clear to the reader that beta cell replacement  offers a vast array of platforms for the application of regenerative  medicine technologies to transplant medicine.