University of Alberta, Canada

Email: tkin@ualberta.ca

Qualifications

2003 Ph.D., Nara Medical University, Japan

1988 M.D., Nara Medical University, Japan

Publications (Selected)

1. Carr, A. L., Shah, R., Marfil-Garza, B. A., Lam, A., Dajani, K., Anderson, B., ... & Senior, P. A. (2025). Sequential islet transplants for type 1 diabetes are not associated with sustained or cumulative increases in hepatic portal venous pressure. PLoS One, 20(7), e0329074.
2. Okuyama, T., Tsuno, T., Inoue, R., Fukushima, S., Kyohara, M., Matsumura, A., ... & Shirakawa, J. (2025). The matricellular protein Fibulin-5 regulates β-cell proliferation in an autocrine/paracrine manner. iScience, 28(2).
3. Lyon, J. G., Carr, A. L., Smith, N. P., Marfil-Garza, B., Spigelman, A. F., Bautista, A., ... & MacDonald, P. E. (2024). Human research islet cell culture outcomes at the Alberta Diabetes Institute IsletCore. Islets, 16(1), 2385510.
4. Parente, A., Verhoeff, K., Kin, T., Hefler, J., Marfil-Garza, B. A., Sanchez-Fernandez, N., ... & Shapiro, A. J. (2024). Evaluating Islet Cell Isolation and Transplantation From Donors Following Medical Assistance in Dying. Transplantation Direct, 10(7), e1667.
5. Kin, T., O'Gorman, D., Zhai, W., Moriarty, J., Park, K., Ganguly, A., ... & Shapiro, A. M. (2024). Contribution of a single islet transplant program to basic researchers in North America, Europe, and Asia through distributing human islets. OBM Transplantation, 8(2), 1-15.
6. Nishida, J., Tsuno, T., Yabe, S. G., Kin, T., Fukuda, S., Takeda, F., ... & Okochi, H. (2024). Encapsulated human islets in alginate fiber maintain long-term functionality. Endocrine Journal, 71(3), 253-264.
7. Forbes, S., Halpin, A., Lam, A., Grynoch, D., Parker, R., Hidalgo, L., ... & Shapiro, A. J. (2024). Islet transplantation outcomes in type 1 diabetes and transplantation of HLA-DQ8/DR4: results of a single-centre retrospective cohort in Canada. EClinicalMedicine, 67.
8. Marfil-Garza, B. A., Hefler, J., Verhoeff, K., Lam, A., Dajani, K., Anderson, B., ... & Shapiro, A. J. (2023). Pancreas and islet transplantation: comparative outcome analysis of a single-centre cohort over 20-years. Annals of surgery, 277(4), 672-680.
9. Verhoeff, K., Cuesta-Gomez, N., Albers, P., Pawlick, R., Marfil-Garza, B. A., Jasra, I., ... & Shapiro, A. J. (2023). Evaluating the potential for ABO-incompatible islet transplantation: expression of ABH antigens on human pancreata, isolated islets, and embryonic stem cell-derived islets. Transplantation, 107(4), e98-e108.
10. Verhoeff, K., Marfil-Garza, B. A., Dajani, K., Bigam, D. L., Anderson, B., Kin, T., ... & Shapiro, A. J. (2023). C-peptide targets and patient-centered outcomes of relevance to cellular transplantation for diabetes. Transplantation, 107(3), 774-781.
11. Rickels, M. R., Eggerman, T. L., Bayman, L., Qidwai, J. C., Alejandro, R., Bridges, N. D., ... & Clinical Islet Transplantation Consortium. (2022). Long-term outcomes with islet-alone and islet-after-kidney transplantation for type 1 diabetes in the clinical islet transplantation consortium: the CIT-08 study. Diabetes Care, 45(12), 2967-2975.
12. Verhoeff, K., Marfil-Garza, B. A., Sandha, G., Cooper, D., Dajani, K., Bigam, D. L., ... & Shapiro, A. J. (2022). Outcomes following extrahepatic and intraportal pancreatic islet transplantation: a comparative cohort study. Transplantation, 106(11), 2224-2231.
13. Ernst, A. U., Wang, L. H., Worland, S. C., Marfil-Garza, B. A., Wang, X., Liu, W., ... & Ma, M. (2022). A predictive computational platform for optimizing the design of bioartificial pancreas devices. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6031.
14. Inoue, R., Tsuno, T., Togashi, Y., Okuyama, T., Sato, A., Nishiyama, K., ... & Shirakawa, J. (2022). Uncoupling protein 2 and aldolase B impact insulin release by modulating mitochondrial function and Ca2+ release from the ER. Iscience, 25(7).
15. Marfil-Garza, B. A., Imes, S., Verhoeff, K., Hefler, J., Lam, A., Dajani, K., ... & Shapiro, A. J. (2022). Pancreatic islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes: 20-year experience from a single-centre cohort in Canada. The lancet Diabetes & endocrinology, 10(7), 519-532.

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