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Recently, initiatives have been undertaken to establish an islet transplantation program in Athens, Greece. A major hurdle is the high cost associated with the establishment and maintenance of a clinical-grade islet manufacturing center. A collaboration was established with the University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, to enable remote islet cell manufacturing with an established and validated fully operational team. However, remote islet manufacturing requires shipment of the pancreas from the procurement to the islet manufacturing site (in this case from anywhere in Greece to Geneva) and then shipment of the islets from the manufacturing site to the transplant site (from Geneva to Athens). To address challenges related to cold ischemia time of the pancreas and shipment time of islets, a collaboration was initiated with the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. An international workshop was held in Athens, December 2011, to mark the start of this collaborative project. Experts in the field presented in three main sessions: (i) islet transplantation: state-of-the-art and the network approach; (ii) technical aspects of clinical islet transplantation and outcomes; and (iii) islet manufacturing from the donated pancreas to the islet product. This manuscript presents a summary of the workshop.
Author(s): Papas KK, Karatzas T, Berney T, Minor T, Pappas P, Pattou F, Shaw J, Toso C, Schuurman HJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Clinical Transplantation
Year: 2013
Volume: 27
Issue: 2
Pages: E116-E125
Print publication date: 01/03/2013
Online publication date: 18/01/2013
Acceptance date: 02/11/2012
ISSN (print): 0902-0063
ISSN (electronic): 1399-0012
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ctr.12066
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12066
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