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 Kenneth L. Brayman, M.D., Ph.D.
Beta-Pro Scientific Advisor
Kenneth L. Brayman, M.D., Ph.D., is the scientific advisor of Beta-Pro. He is also
a professor of surgery at the University of Virginia (UVa), where he directs the
renal, pancreas and human islet cell transplant programs at the UVa Medical Center.
During his tenure, he has doubled the size of the transplant program and has established
UVa as the premier regional center for diabetes treatment through islet cell transplantation.
Before joining UVa in September 2002, Dr. Brayman directed the pancreas transplant
program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the renal transplant
program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He also lead the Human Islet
Transplant Program at the University of Pennsylvania from 1992-1999.
Under Dr. Brayman's direction, the University of Pennsylvania performed six successful
islet cell transplants in non-uremic patients with type 1 diabetes. The patients,
who required insulin and suffered from hypoglycemic unawareness (an inability to
sense low blood sugar) before receiving islet cell transplants, enjoyed freedom
from insulin administration after transplantation.
Dr. Brayman’s research interests are in islet cell transplantation, transplantation
tolerance, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation. He is a graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. and Ph.D., and the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he earned a B.S. in biochemistry.
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