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Episode 97: Beyond Insulin - Stem Cells, Islet Engineering, and the Future of Diabetes Care with Dr. Quinn Peterson
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Koenig sits down with Dr. Quinn Peterson, a Mayo Clinic stem cell biologist, to explore how regenerative medicine could move type 1 diabetes from lifelong management to true biological restoration.✨ Key takeaways:🔥 From lab curiosity to purpose-driven science: how a cancer drug developer pivoted his entire career after his three-year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and later two more of his children.🧬 Building transplantable islets, not just beta cells: inside the Mayo Clinic program engineering full pancreatic islets from stem cells to restore a…
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