NIH/Beta Cell Biology Consortium BCBC: Targeted Resource Generation Projects (TRGP) - Letter of intent

The NIH/BCBC has announced a Targeted Resource Generation Project (TRGP) competition to generate scalable, in‐vitro models of pure pancreatic beta cells of human origin. These cells should have phenotypic and functional characteristics highly similar to human beta‐cells derived from healthy human islets, and meet the following criteria:
• Mono-hormonal expression of insulin
• Response to relevant secretagogues in the physiological range in-vitro
• scalability to medium or high throughput assays
http://www.betacell.org/research/TRGP/?rfa