I also want to thank our sponsors, Roche Pharmaceutical, SangStat Medical Corporation, and Bridge Information Systems, for their continued generous support of our Foundation and of the work that we do here. We're going to hear first from Dr. Hering on the subject of islet cell transplantation. He will be followed by Dr. Hayek, who is going to speak to us about how this is relevant to diabetic children and about his work with new technologies with islet cell expansion. And then we're going to hear from Dr. David Sutherland about pancreas transplantation. In between Dr. Hayek's speech and Dr. Sutherland's speech we will have about a 15-minute break.
Refreshments are just at the back of the room here.
After that we're going to have an open forum for questions. We've left a healthy amount of time for this forum because we want to respond to your questions. The purpose of being here today is to make sure that your questions are answered. We don't want to just stand here and tell you things that you don't want to know. So we've left an hour for that.