Attended events
DRIVE General Assembly - January 2019
The DRIVE project held it's penultimate General Assembly meeting from January 17-18th 2019 at one of the well-known Universities in Europe, the University of Oxford. The main focus of the meeting was sharing all the projects' progress, and to organize the efforts for the 4 months ahead.
DRIVE Expert Advisory Board and General Assembly meeting held in RCSI Dublin
The DRIVE project is over half way through, and approaching a critical stage of development for the diabetes reversing implant technologies. As such, it was a good time to get expert advice from leaders in the fields of cell therapy, devices, trials, regulation and finance to maximise the outputs from future project work. DRIVE's Expert Advisory Board were invited to RCSI Dublin, where after hearing a review of the project achievements and future work plans, they provided feedback and recommendations to the DRIVE General Assembly. The External Advisory Board was composed of Prof Paul de Vos (Professor of Immunoendocrinology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen), Dr Jeffrey Millman (Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis), Dr Albert Hwa (Operations Director at Joslin Diabetes Center and Lecturer, Harvard Medical School), Dr Georgina Murphy (Investment Associate, Atlantic Bridge Capital) and Dr Niamh Curran (Pharmaceutical Assessor, Health Products Regulatory Authority).
DRIVE Patient Panel 2 held in Milan
The DRIVE project's 2nd Patient Panel event was hosted by partner Niguarda Ca 'Granda Hospital in Milan. The panel discussion, which was attended by around 200 diabetes patients and stakeholders was organised by DRIVE partner INNOVA in collaboration with Nigurda and included research talks by the leading Italian experts in Type 1 diabetes and islet transplantation research.
IPITA 2017
This year's IPITA has been held in Oxford, hosted by DRIVE partner University of Oxford.
The International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association aims to serve the pancreas and islet transplant scientific community in providing a forum for the open exchange of knowledge and expertise in order to facilitate the advancement of the clinical practice of pancreas and islet transplantation for the treatment of human diabetes.
DRIVE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
DRIVE held it's month 22 General Assembly meeting from March 23-24th 2017 at one of the oldest Universities in Europe, Utrecht University, Netherlands. The main focus of the meeting was planning the preclinical studies to test DRIVE's "ß-System" diabetes reversing implants.
Winter School: training event
The DRIVE project in association with sister EU projects AMCARE and NEXTorganised a Winter School training event: "Translational Reality of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs)" in the Galway Bay Hotel from November 28th – December 1st 2016. All three projects are focused on the development of ATMPs (cell therapy products).
DRIVE's Patient Panel
At the DRIVE Patient Panel in Dublin diabetes patients or parents/spouses of diabetes patients discussed the potential risks, benefits, challenges and opportunities for DRIVE’s β-System diabetes reversing implant technology with...
Free public lecture from DRIVE clinical experts: RCSI MyHealth
The Rise and Rise of Diabetes in Ireland - Is it something that should worry us all?
The first RCSI MyHealth lectures took place on 3rd March 2016 and this three-part public talk was entitled "The Rise and Rise of Diabetes in Ireland". This session is introduced by Rise and Rise of Diabetes in Ireland...
Dr. Garry Duffy presented DRIVE at the 3U Partnership Diabetes Research Conference
Islet transplantation, a treatment not currently available for people with type 1 diabetes in Ireland, was a major focus of the Fourth Annual 3U Partnership International Diabetes Conference entitled ‘Current Challenges in Diabetes Research’ which took place at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) in Dublin...
DRIVE at The Diabetes Experience day
Prof. José Luis Pedraz (CIBER BBN) presented the DRIVE project at "The Diabetes Experience day" that will take place on 13 February 2016 in Madrid (Spain).
This is the first global meeting where the Diabetes patient is the protagonist.
DRIVE at IPITA 2015
Garry Duffy (RCSI, DRIVE's Coordinator) and Eoin O'Cearbhaill (UCD, DRIVE PI) presented on behalf of DRIVE at IPITA joint conference in Melbourne...
DRIVE General Assembly 2015
The DRIVE General Assembly was held at UCD - Dublin mid-October 2015. Great progress has been made already since the project started in June 2015!
DRIVE Outreach Event - Discover Research Dublin 2015
On the evening of the 25th September 2015, DRIVE researchers have taken part in Discover Research Dublin 2015, an interactive night of free public engagement events on wide variety of research themes. The event took place at the O'Reilly Institute / Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin – Dublin, Ireland