Dr. Carlos Eduardo Barra Couri

Dr. Carlos Eduardo Barra Couri is an endocrinologist and researcher at the Ribeirao Preto Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo. He tested whether a one-time immune reset could preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. With Julio Cesar Voltarelli he ran the first trials of high-dose immunosuppression followed by autologous nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in recent-onset disease. The results were reported in JAMA in 2007 and again in 2009. Of the 23 patients treated, twenty became insulin free, and twelve stayed insulin independent for a mean of 31 months. His research centers on immunointervention and beta-cell preservation in type 1 diabetes, and he remains based at USP in Ribeirao Preto.

Affiliation

Endocrinologist and Researcher, University of Sao Paulo

Location

Ribeirão Preto, Brazil