Discovering insulin’s role in processing sugar.
Identifying a marker for glucose control in the
blood. Creating the technology that gave the
world synthetic human insulin.
City of Hope has one of the most infl uential
diabetes research programs in the world.
TYPE 1 DIABETES:
RACING TOWARD A CURE
There, scientists have revolutionized our
understanding and treatment of the disease.
Their work continues today with exciting
developments in cell transplantation, gene
regulation, immune tolerance and a new
understanding of diabetes as a complex,
multifaceted disease.For more than 40 years, City of Hope has been at the forefront
of breakthroughs in diabetes research. Now, scientist Arthur Riggs
says he has committed to “cure diabetes within my lifetime.”