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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Ekaterine Berishvili: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Ekaterine Berishvili
Medical doctor and associate professor at the University of Geneva School of Medicine
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press citations on 1 topic since 22 Apr 2026 · last quoted 19 May 2026
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Ekaterine Berishvili: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Medical doctor and associate professor at the University of Geneva School of Medicine
- Quoted on
- Diabetes
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 19 May 2026
- First quoted
- 22 Apr 2026
04 The signal · where Ekaterine Berishvili sits on diabetes
Ranked 48= of 100 voices quoted in the press on diabetes, level with 35 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Douglas TwenefourClinicianHead of Clinical, Diabetes UK36 - 2
Dr Elizabeth RobertsonSector leaderDirector of Research and Clinical, Diabetes UK20 - 3=
Helen KnightRegulatorDirector of Medicines Evaluation, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)15 - 48=Professor James CantleyAcademicFaculty of Health at the University of Dundee3
- 48=Karen AddingtonSector leaderchief executive of the diabetes charity Breakthrough T1D3
- 48=Ekaterine BerishviliClinicianMedical doctor and associate professor at the University of Geneva School of Medicine3
- 48=Anastassios PittasAcademicProfessor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and chief of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at Tufts Medical Center3
- 48=Dr Patrick HolmesAcademicGP and diabetes specialist3
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05 On the record · press
What Ekaterine Berishvili has said
By outlet · linked articles
- alphagalileo.org1
- cordis.europa.eu1
- technologynetworks.com1
Where Ekaterine Berishvili has been quoted
- 01Hydrogel Supported Bioartificial Pancreas Transplant in T1DM Modeltechnologynetworks.com · 19 May 2026
- 02Diabetes: a protective gel for a future without insulin injectionsalphagalileo.org · 18 May 2026
- 03Bioartificial pancreas offers a potential cure for type 1 diabetes | VANGUARD Project | Results in Brief | H2020cordis.europa.eu · 22 Apr 2026
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“This gel creates a protective, natural-like environment in which we embed pancreatic islets together with vessel-forming cells. Before transplantation, those cells self-organize into a network of microvessels surrounding the islets, so the graft arrives pre-vascularized”
“This gel creates a protective, natural-like environment in which we embed pancreatic islets together with vessel-forming cells. Before transplantation, those cells self-organize into a network of microvessels surrounding the islets, so the graft arrives pre-vascularized.”
“Our goal was to engineer a bioartificial pancreas, a construct containing insulin-producing cell clusters embedded in a protective biomaterial that can restore normal blood sugar without having to rely on donor organs or suppressing the patient's immune system.”
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