DIABETES DOC: Former Washington University
researcher, Dr. Camillo Ricordi, will return to
town on Sept. 29 for a presentation at the Ritz-Carlton that will
spotlight his continued research for a cure for diabetes.
As a young researcher here, Ricordi invented the Ricordi
Chamber, a medical device that is currently used around the world
for islet cell transplants for diabetes patients. Ricordi is
recognized as one of the world’s leading diabetes researchers and
will be here as the featured speaker at an event that will benefit
the Missouri Cures Education Foundation.
Sponsors for Ricordi’s visit include: Dr. William
Danforth; Sam and Marilyn Fox;
John and Anne McDonnell; Richard and
Josephine Weil; the law firm of Goldenberg Heller
Antognoli Rowland; Dan and Connie
Burkhardt; Lynn and Kathy Chipperfield; Roy
Pfautch; the Staenberg Family Foundation; THF Realty;
Steve and Kimmy Brauer;
Bob Fox and Maxine Clark; the CPA
firm of Stone Carlie; and the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation.
Ricordi is now the scientific director of the University of
Miami Diabetes Research Institute. His presentation will begin at
5:30. Tickets, which include a cocktail reception, are $100 per
person, of which $65 is tax deductible. Tickets can be ordered by
clicking
here or by calling 1-800-829-4133.
The visit here is also a homecoming for Ricordi’s wife,
Valerie Grace Ricordi, a St. Louis-area native and
graduate of John Burroughs School. The two met while Ricordi was
doing his research in St. Louis.
