Islet Procurement and Analysis Core

The Islet Procurement and Analysis Core (IPA Core) is a new core of the Vanderbilt DRTC. Pancreatic islet biology, development, and function are major DRTC research areas with investigators studying a variety of islet-related processes ranging from intracellular signaling, immunology of type 1 diabetes, islet-enriched transcription factors, to islet transplantation. The objective of the core is to facilitate research of DRTC-affiliated investigators by providing high quality, well characterized mouse pancreatic islets. In addition, the IPA Core will assist DRTC-affiliated investigators in studies with human islets that are currently available through a human islet distribution network jointly supported by the NIH (NIDDK and NCRR) and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The IPA Core also offers analysis of insulin secretion by isolated mouse or human pancreatic islets in the dynamic cell perifusion system.

 

Contact: Marcela Brissova, Ph.D.—Director
Phone: 615-936-1672
Email: marcela.brissova@vanderbilt.edu

 

Contact: Anastasia Golovin—Research Assistant
Phone: 615-936-2858
Email: anastasia.golovin@vanderbilt.edu

 

Website: mc.vanderbilt.edu/diabetes/drtc/islet_procurement.php