Flow of Worldwide Islet Distribution

The IIDP subcontracts with leading Islet Isolation Centers around the country that procure pancreata from deceased donors and perform the complex challenging process of isolating high quality human islets. These islets are then distributed around the globe to subscribing researchers who require them for their basic science experiments. Attendant information with each isolation includes: data on the donor and the isolation characteristics; United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) data elements; extensive standardized phenotyping data; and genetic risk scores for T1D/T2D and ancestry data. All of these data are integrated and made available to approved researchers via the IIDP Research Data Repository (RDR).