Leonardo Ferreira, MD

2026 Speaker

Leonardo Ferreira, MD

Dr. Leonardo Ferreira is an assistant professor at MUSC Department of Pharmacology and Immunology, will talk on a possible cure for diabetes.

His Talk

Is there a new way to treat type 1 diabetes?

MUSC’s Dr. Leonardo Ferreira explores the possibility that an off-the-shelf therapy pairing stem cell-derived insulin-producing beta cells with regulatory immune cells designed to protect them could move us closer to a cure.

His Talk

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