World Leader in Pancreas Transplant and Islet Transplant

The Transplant Center—Doctors, islet

Bernhard J Hering, M.D.

Dr. Bernhard J. Hering is Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Minnesota, Director of the Islet Transplant Program at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Associate Director of the Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation, and holder of the Eunice L. Dwan Diabetes Research Chair at the University of Minnesota.

He is an internationally recognized leader in experimental and clinical islet cell transplantation for the treatment of diabetes. His contributions have been instrumental in making islet transplantation available to an increasing number of patients early in the course of diabetes. He is especially interested in Type I Diabetes.

Dr. Hering is a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences. He has authored or co-authored over 150 articles and over 20 book chapters.

Specialties

• Islet Transplant

Academics

• Completed his medical degree at Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany, 1983
• Completed his surgical residency at Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany, Internal Medicine, 1995
• Completed his medical fellowship at Justus-Lieb-University, Giessen, Germany, Endocrinology, 1996

Organizations

• Eunice Dwan Diabetes Research Chair
• Co-director of the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) Islet Transplant Center at the University of California San Francisco/University of Minnesota
• Executive Committee Member of the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Immune Tolerance Network,
• Member of the Steering Committees of the NIH Human Islet Cell Resource Program, NIH Nonhuman Primate Transplantation Tolerance Collaborative Study Group, and NIH TrialNet
• Medical Director of the NIH Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry.
• Scientific Advisory Board Member of Islet Technology, Inc.
• Co-founder of the International Islet Transplant Registry
• Current President of the Cell Transplantation Society and Councilor of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association
• Served on the editorial boards: Cell Transplantation, Clinical Transplantation, Graft, and Transplantation.

Dr. Hering’s major research interests include islet-processing techniques, immunobiology of islet xenograft rejection in the preclinical pig-to-nonhuman primate model, as well as immunotherapeutic strategies for the prevention of islet allograft failure in autoimmune Type I diabetes. Dr. Hering has conducted research in Cell Biology and Immunobiology of Islet Transplantation in Preclinical Models.