 Kenneth L. Brayman, M.D., Ph.D.
Principal 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.
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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