PharmaCyte Biotech has established an International Diabetes Consortium (Diabetes Consortium) that consists of world-renowned physicians and scientists from several countries, all of whom share the same goal of developing a treatment for Type 1 and insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes.

In addition to PharmaCyte’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer, the Diabetes Consortium is made up of well-known physicians and scientists from leading Universities in Munich, Germany, Mannheim, Germany, Vienna, Austria, Barcelona, Spain, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Sydney, Australia. It also involves members from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, the Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment in Feldkirch, Austria and the biotech company Austrianova in Singapore.

Dr. Eva Maria Brandtner leads the Diabetes Consortium and is PharmaCyte’s Director of Diabetes Program Development. Dr. Brandtner, who is a consultant for PharmaCyte as well, previously served as the Chief Scientist with Austrianova. In that role, she conducted preclinical studies with the Melligen cells. Prof. Ann. M Simpson and her colleagues at the University of Technology Sydney developed the Melligen cells. Prof. Simpson is a member of the Consortium.

In addition to key personnel from PharmaCyte, Dr. Brandtner and Prof. Simpson, the Diabetes Consortium includes Prof. Dr. Walter H. Günzburg, PharmaCyte’s Chief Scientific Officer and the Chief Technical Officer of Austrianova, and Dr. Brian Salmons, the Chief Executive Officer of Austrianova and a member of PharmaCyte’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Board. It also includes research scientists Prof. Dr. Eckhard Wolf and Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wanke from the Ludwig-Maximillian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Both, together with their colleagues at LMU, have developed unique animal models for insulin-dependent diabetes. Other key members of the Diabetes Consortium include Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hammes, Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Faculty of Clinical Medicine Mannheim of Heidelberg University and Section Leader for Endocrinology and Diabetology, Mannheim, Germany, Prof. Dr. Thomas Stratman of the University of Barcelona in Spain and Prof. Dr. Axel Kornerup Hanson of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.