At a ceremony on January 10, 2019, held at the Cooper Auditorium at City of Hope (COH) in Duarte, CA, Joyce C. Niland, Ph.D. became one of the three newest inductees to the Scientific Research Portrait Gallery. This auspicious honor is given to those investigators that have devoted their careers to the advancement of science at COH. Dr. Niland is the Department Chair of the Diabetes & Cancer Discovery Science at City of Hope, a Full Professor in the Beckman Research Institute, an adjunct Professor in the USC Keck School of Medicine, holder of the first Edward & Estelle Alexander Endowed Chair and brings over 30 years of experience and 193 publications in biostatistics, biomedical informatics, system development and deployment, and collaboration in translational research. 

The IIDP is pleased to announce the release of IIDP-HIPP data to IIDP Approved Investigators. As a result of this initiative, investigators who have received islets from IIDP will now be able to access and retrieve extensive phenotypic data on their islet preparations.