“…Both modalities have become established as an efficacious means to achieve normoglycemia, prevent hypoglycemia, and potentially protect against vascular complications of T1D ( Barton et al., 2012 , Choudhary et al., 2015 , Gruessner and Gruessner, 2013 , Thompson et al., 2011 ). Despite marked progress in clinical islet transplantation with the achievement and maintenance of insulin independence in over half of recipients up to 5 years ( Shapiro and Ricordi, 2014 ), transplant approaches are limited to those with life-threatening hypoglycemic unawareness or severe glucose lability ( Shapiro et al., 2000 ). Furthermore, this approach remains restricted due to the scarcity of human pancreas donors.…”