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Funding Support<\/h3>

Research in the Levings Lab is partially funded by the following grants.<\/p>

    \n\tUS Dept of Defense<\/strong>: Engineering an effective CAR Treg combination therapy to control VCA rejection (2023)<\/li>\n\n\tStem Cell Network<\/strong>: Genetic engineering of hESC-derived insulin-producing cells to improve graft outcomes in type 1 diabetes (2023)<\/li>\n\n\tCIHR Team Grant<\/strong>: Immunometabolism in diabetes: Harnessing metabolic crosstalk between islets and immune cells for therapy (2022)<\/li>\n\n\tStem Cell Network<\/strong>: Clinical trial of the first gene-edited cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes (2022)<\/li>\n\n\tPublic Health Agency of Canada<\/strong>: Understanding Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination in Children Aged 5-11 years: Expansion of Existing CITF-Supported Pediatric Studies (2021)<\/li>\n\n\tJDRF Canada<\/strong>: JDRF Centre of Excellence at UBC (2021)<\/li>\n\n\tCIHR Team Grant<\/strong>: Allogeneic thymus-derived Tregs to prevent chronic inflammation in transplantation (2021)<\/li>\n\n\tWellcome Leap<\/strong>: Building immunity from stem cells for translational disease models (2021)<\/li>\n\n\tCIHR-JDRF Team Grant<\/strong>: Generation of a functionally robust stem cell based therapy for type 1 diabetes (2021)<\/li>\n\n\tHelmsley Trust<\/strong>: Engineering antigen-specific regulatory T cells for use in type 1 diabetes (2020)<\/li>\n\n\tCIHR Team Grant – Human Immunology Initiative<\/strong>: Innate and adaptive immune regulation in human type 1 diabetes (2019)<\/li>\n\n\tCIHR<\/strong>: Canadian autoimmunity standardization core (CAN-ASC) (2018)<\/li>\n\n\tJDRF International<\/strong>: Harmonizing biomarkers in clinical trials of ustekinumab (2018)<\/li>\n\n\tCIHR<\/strong>: Molecular and cellular biology of T regulatory cells (2017)<\/li>\n\n\tBristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)<\/strong>: Defining Phenotypic and Functional Alterations of Tissue Regulatory T Cells to Assist in the Identification of Novel Targets for Next-generation Therapies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2016)<\/li>\n\n\tTakeda Canada<\/strong>: The Role of CD4+ T cell Subsets in the Mechanism of Action of Vedolizumab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2015)<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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