The Diabetes Zero Association, composed of affected families, celebrated its first National Congress, where it managed to combine 400 health professionals and patients.
Still stunned for the impact that has had the celebration of its I National Congress, the promoter, the Association Diabetes Zero (DT0), again launches a call to continue collecting funds with which to continue the work initiated in the meeting held at the end ofApril in the Sevillian town of Écija: finance six investigations to put against type 1 diabetes, which affects children.
The Congress organized by this movement of families managed to gather some 400 health professionals and patients from all over Spain.
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The association that prepares its conversion into a foundation, is made up of 14 delegations distributed by different Spanish provinces, being the Malaga extension one of the most important by number of members and collection capacity -40% of the funds delivered to the research groups comeof beneficial events sponsored in the province.It is precisely, the Coordinator of Diabetes Zero Málaga, Manuel Castro, neighbor of Marbella, who now launches this new SOS so that the research cause in which first level scientists and leading centers are involved in the field continues to count on funds.The next activity to raise money will be a tribute concert to mythical rock bands (AC DC, Queen and The Police), on Saturday, July 22 in the Plaza de la Nogalera de Torremolinos, starting at 6:00 p.m.
The provincial coordinator underlines that the Congress of Écija has meant a milestone for the association because it is the first National Meeting of Professionals and Patients that brings together funds for research.In the Spanish specialist meeting they presented the scope of six studies that are carried out in prestigious research institutes, which depend on public hospitals: Cabimer, the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, where one of the works is being developed by the former Ministerof Health Bernat Soria;CIBERDEM, the Biomedical Research Center of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases;BIOCALDO INSTITUTE, and two other Catalan Biomedical Centers, GERMÁN TRIAS AND PUJOL INSTITUTE OF BADALONA AND IDIBAPS INSTITUTE OF BARCELONA.
Former Minister Bernat Soria leads one of the projects financed by the collective
Different optics
In Congress the projects were awarded with 105,000 euros.Three of them with 25,000 euros, money raised exclusively through beneficial events held in different parts of Spain by the association since its creation in 2014, while the other three investigating groups received 10,000 euros each, thanks to the support of the FoundationThirst for the Spanish Diabetes Society.
These works, which currently receive other sources of public or private financing have from now on with the support of the Diabetes Zero Association, whose directive is being advised by a scientific committee that has been in charge of selecting the finalist projects.This wise panel is composed of doctors Ramón Gomis,IDIBAPS director and president of the SED Foundation of the Spanish Diabetes Society;Luis Castaño, director of the Biocruces Research Laboratory of Bilbao, and Manuel Aguilar, head of Endocrinology of the Puerta del Mar de Cádiz hospital.
The purpose of the clinical trials that are financed is to end child diabetes, but from different optics.While one of the projects aims to reprogram the skin's skin cells to achieve new Beta Beta cells of insulin, another investigations, for example, seeks to regulate the immune system and thus automatically regenerate beta cells destroyed when the autoimmune attack begins.The provincial coordinator in Malaga explains that it will be the scientific advisory committee that determines future investments in view of the results presented by the research groups in the second edition of the Congress.
«After this first meeting, zero diabetes at the national level continues to work with more enthusiasm if possible, because people have become aware that research must be pushed.Our work will now focus on gathering money again to continue supporting these lines of work and hold a second meeting next year, ”explains the provincial coordinator in Malaga.
