Physician Investigator (NonCl) Transplant Surgery, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School

Research Staff Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Immunologist Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital

MBA York University Business School 2002

MD West China University of Medical Science 1991

MSc West China University of Medical Science 1997

endocrine system; immune system; islets of langerhans transplantation; transplantation tolerance

The Massachusetts General Hospital Pancreatic Islet Isolation Laboratory is a specialized service facility providing services for research and clinical care use, and the only lab in New England that practices the FDA-approved current Good Manufacture Procedure (cGMP) standards. We are one of few active laboratories in the United States that collaborates within the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Consortium of Islet Transplantation (CIT) and its affiliates to advance clinical islet transplantation from an experimental to a standard care procedure. We also are very actively exploring immunotolerance strategies in nonhuman primate models to advance allogenic islet transplantation and stem cell derived beta cells preclinical studies.