#41 JDRF Director of Discovery Research Albert Hwa
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wanted to talk to a super smart guy about the research that is happening around diabetes? I'm talking about prevention, treatments, cure, artificial pancreas, responsive insulin, beta cell therapy, encapsulation... theres so much to choose from and Albert speaks about them all like an expert (because he is!).
Albert Hwa, Ph.D. joined the JDRF in January 2007 as the scientific program manager in the beta cell therapies program, for which he develops and manages research initiatives related to islet transplantation, bioengineering, stem cell research, cell encapsulation, and cellular reprogramming.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Juice Box Podcast is sponsored by Insulate, makers of the OmniPOD System, the world's only tubeless insulin pump. |
| 0:07.0 | This is episode 41 of the podcast. Today's episode is a conversation with the Director of Discovery Research from the JDRF, |
| 0:16.1 | Albert Huah. |
| 0:17.4 | Albert and I are going to talk about where the JDRF puts their research money. |
| 0:21.7 | Prevention, Artificial Pancreas, responsive insulin |
| 0:25.2 | encapsulation, beta cell, beta cell, beta cell, beta cell, really, I can't get through one of these |
| 0:29.9 | without making a mistake, beta cell therapies. And I actually ask Albert, among other things, if he thinks a cure is beneficial. |
| 0:37.6 | I see a lot of people online talking about, oh no one's ever going to cure type |
| 0:40.9 | one diabetes because you know what that's not |
| 0:42.9 | financially viable you know people almost I think feel like that even if someone came |
| 0:49.3 | up with a cure that they'd hide it in a closet and Albert's going to tell you why he doesn't believe that's true, |
| 0:54.2 | among a lot of other things. |
| 0:55.8 | Let's get right to it. |
| 0:57.6 | Call the JDRF. Even their ring sounds nice. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello Scott? |
| 1:08.0 | Albert, how are you? |
| 1:10.0 | Good. |
| 1:11.0 | Do I sound better now? |
| 1:12.0 | You sound great. The room noise is gone. This is much better. |
| 1:15.0 | Okay, great. Beautiful. I don't want to take up a lot of your time so we're going to jump right into it. Can you introduce yourself to start off? |
| 1:22.0 | Sure. My name is Albert Hua. I am the director of Discovery Research at the research |
| 1:30.0 | department at the JDRF. My |
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