Lille University Hospital, the first French establishment to perform a Langerhans’ islet transplant covered by health insurance

A major first for our biotherapy team in conjunction with the transplant team at the Lille University Hospital : the first islet transplant in France reimbursed by the health insurance!

This significant progress for type 1 diabetic patients is the culmination of 25 years of research by the UMR 1190 team, which is the culmination of a year-long effort to bring this advance into routine hospital practice.

Find this information reported in the article of the newspaper La Voix du Nord.

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