Islet Transplantation LUMC News Surprise • @1MEMO 20251020

Diabetic (dutch ‘Suikerzieke) … Parool, 6 Jan 1990 • @1MEMO 20251020

Big surprise today , to encounter this nice news article by journalist Rob van Dijk reporting on our pancreatic islet transplantation breakthrough in the Leiden University Hospital (now LUMC) in the Amsterdam based Dutch national newspaper Parool , Saturday 6 January 1990 (1).

I was searching actually for a better copy of a different news article I have archived on my clinical islet transplantation work (Newspaper Volkskrant 10 April 1999) in the Delpher archive of the National Library of the Netherlands , scrolling the search results, and noticed this Parool article – I didn’t know it existed ;)

Journalist Rob van Dijk did not interview me for the Parool, so I assume his source was the interview I gave for publication in Cicero, the biweekly LUMC publication, and the Dutch newspaper ‘Leidsch Dagblad’, and posted a year ago (2).

The articles reports (my translation from dutch*) :

Transplantation

Islet transplantation has been possible for a few years now, but it doesn’t (yet?) work in humans. The technique itself isn’t that complicated: as many islets of Langerhans as possible are extracted from a pancreas, injected into the diabetic patient’s liver or spleen, and thus, start producing insulin. However, that “thus” is still a bit tricky… …
The major problems lie in the fact that the yield of properly functioning islets is too small (at least 30 percent of the islets must be obtained undamaged to achieve sufficient insulin production after a transplant) and that the suspensions are too impure. Nevertheless, progress is being made.
The best news comes from Leiden University Hospital. There, biologist M. van der Burg, MSc has developed a method to isolate a very high and pure yield of islets from a dog’s pancreas. Van der Burg succeeded in isolating 40 percent of the vital islets from a dog’s pancreas. Through special processing, he was able to completely purify these cell clumps of 90 percent of excess and complicating pancreatic tissue. These islets were injected into the spleen of the same dog, where they produced sufficient insulin. This initial experiment has since been repeated in Leiden with several dogs with the same success. However, major challenges remain, not the least of which is the rejection problem. The Leiden experiments used the dog’s own tissue. The big question remains how the human immune system reacts when islets from a donor are injected.

*NL (dutch) quote :

Transplantatie

Sinds een paar jaar is eilandjestransplantatie wel mogelijk, alleen, bij de mens werkt het (nog?) niet. De techniek is op zichzelf niet zo ingewikkeld: men haalt zoveel mogelijk eilandjes van Langerhans uit een pancreas, spuit die bij de suikerzieke in lever of milt in en dan gaan ze dus insuline maken. Met dat ‘dus’ ligt het echter nog moeilijk… …
De grote problemen schuilen hem erin dat de oogst aan goed werkende eilandjes te gering is (men moet ten minste 30 procent van de eilandjes onbeschadigd te pakken krijgen om na een transplantatie voldoende insulineproduktie te verkrijgen) en dat de suspensies te onzuiver zijn. Toch zit er schot in.
Het beste nieuws komt uit het academisch ziekenhuis te Leiden. Daar heeft de bioloog drs. M. van der Burg een methode ontwikkeld om uit een hondepancreas een zeer hoge en zuivere oogst aan eilandjes te isoleren. Van der Burg slaagde erin uit de alvleesklier van een hond 40 procent van de vitale eilandjes te isoleren, door een speciale bewerking kon hij deze celklompjes voor 90 procent absoluut zuiveren van overbodig en complicerend pancreasweefsel. Deze eilandjes werden ingespoten in de milt van dezelfde hond en produceren daar voldoende insuline. Dit eerste experiment is in Leiden intussen met meerdere honden met hetzelfde succes herhaald. Maar er zijn nog grote problemen op te lossen en bepaald niet het geringste daarvan is dat van de afstoting. Bij de Leidse experimenten werd gebruik gemaakt van eigen weefsel van de hond. De grote vraag blijft hoe het immuunsysteem van de mens reageert als er eilandjes van een donor worden ingespoten.

Notes

1) Transplantatie. “Het Parool”. Amsterdam, 06-01-1990. Retrieved in Delpher on 20-10-2025, https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010834140:mpeg21:p017

2) Islet Transplantation Breakthrough in Leiden University Hospital • 20240830 • Michel van der Burg • michelvanderburg•com • URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/08/30/islet-transplantation-breakthrough-in-leiden-university-hospital-20240830/

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Finale • Hyer’s Work In Progress #3 • 20251018

Setting up the final, 3rd, scene. Behind the scenes photo taken by Philippe Renette while Liège artist Nico Hyer is working with spray paint making the street art mural ‘Simon’ in the garden of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium, Oct 2024.

Notes

Meet Nico Hyer

HYER | Meet the Artist • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250526 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/05/26/hyer-meet-the-artist-20250526/

Documentary Street Art Simon

Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

Tags

@MiraclesMedia
#HYER #mural #S2J #BTS #WIP #making #spray #can #graffiti #painting #street #art #mural #fresco #holocaust #Simon #garden #espace #remembrance #souvenir #education #school #Liège #war #artist

Citation info : Finale • Hyer’s Work In Progress #3 • Miracles•Media • 20251018 • TakeNode a59a2791-4b00-4830-b714-407e0db9909c

Studio • Hyer’s Work In Progress #2 • 20251017

Behind the scenes photo taken by Philippe Renette while Liège artist Nico Hyer is working with spray paint making the street art mural ‘Simon’ in the garden of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium, Oct 2024.

Notes

Meet Nico Hyer

HYER | Meet the Artist • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250526 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/05/26/hyer-meet-the-artist-20250526/

Documentary Street Art Simon

Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

Tags

@MiraclesMedia
#HYER #mural #S2J #BTS #WIP #making #spray #can #graffiti #painting #street #art #mural #fresco #holocaust #Simon #garden #espace #remembrance #souvenir #education #school #Liège #war #artist

Citation info : Studio • Hyer’s Work In Progress #2 • Miracles•Media • 20251017 • TakeNode 90f271d4-cd58-4932-93d6-178ea0a90215

Aerosol Art • Hyer’s Work In Progress #1 • 20251016

Behind the scenes photo taken by Philippe Renette while Liège artist Nico Hyer is working with spray paint making the street art mural ‘Simon’ in the garden of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium, Oct 2024.

Notes

Meet Nico Hyer

HYER | Meet the Artist • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20250526 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/05/26/hyer-meet-the-artist-20250526/

Documentary Street Art Simon

Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

Tags

@MiraclesMedia
#HYER #mural #S2J #BTS #WIP #making #spray #can #graffiti #painting #street #art #mural #fresco #holocaust #Simon #garden #espace #remembrance #souvenir #education #school #Liège #war #artist

Citation info : Aerosol Art • Hyer’s Work In Progress #1 • Miracles•Media • 20251016 • TakeNode 748e6b4b-c553-4df7-8f6b-9f27c4c770c6

Solo • 20251015

Still from the film Street Art Simon (1). Detail from the first scene of the street art mural created by the Liège artist HYER , depicting the story of Simon Gronowski in the Garden of Remembrance of the S2J School Center in Liège, Belgium.
This scene shows the moment that Simon jumps, solo, when pushed to freedom by his mother, Chana Kaplan, who is standing in the opening of the sliding door of the freight car of Transport XX — the 20th deportation train heading to Auschwitz on the night of the 19th April 1943 at Cuttecoven (Kuttekoven) in Belgium, some 50 km (30 miles) before the border with Germany .

Notes

1. Street Art Simon – CC | Miracles Docs #6 | Miracles•Media | 20251012 | URL https://miracles.media/2025/10/12/street-art-simon-miracles-docs-6-cc-⚙-🇬🇧🇫🇷-20251012/

Citation info : Solo • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • 20251015 • TakeNode e52684e9-e7da-4194-9274-8f6207a27c58

Gaza Peace Propaganda Outcome • @1MEMO 20251013

Did it work, this propaganda ?

Propaganda visualizing joint Israeli-Palestinian public projects published 3 months ago , July 25, 2025 (@1MEMO 20250725)

Source :

Gaza Riviera Plan 3.0 • @1MEMO 20250725

It would be wonderful, right?, if the Israelis would rebuild Gaza, and essential for reparation for the war damage, according to a new “Plan 3.0” : meaning rebuilding for the people of Gaza and working with them, promoting trust, peace, wealth, through a shared economy, in cooperation…the future for all. AI-generated image by OpenAI (DALL·E), and custom prompts by Michel van der Burg

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Rebuild #Riviera #sea #Mediterranean #Trump #promenade #Plan3 #OpenAI

URL michelvanderburg.com – https://michelvanderburg.com/2025/07/25/gaza-riviera-plan-3-0-1memo-20250725/

1memo.substack – https://1memo.substack.com/p/gaza-riviera-plan-30-1memo-20250725

Citation info : Gaza Peace Propaganda Outcome • @1MEMO 20251013