Congratulations to nPOD investigator, Jake Kushner, M.D., who recently moved to Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)where he has been named a McNair Scholar in diabetes and section head of pediatric diabetes and endocrinology at BCM. Additionally, he has been named service chief of pediatric diabetes and endocrinology at Texas Children’s Hospital. Please click here to read more.

nPOD Day at FOCIS, 2011

The Immunology of Diabetes Society (IDS) and JDRF organized a forum for discussion of results of nPOD research projects, as well as other studies of type 1 diabets, at theFederation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) meeting, held on June 23, 2011, in Washington, D.C. Over 10 nPOD investigators were in attendance and presented their research. For more information on these presentations, please visit our publications page.