HRI research teams are part of large collaboration networks such as the EU 6th framework-sponsored BetaCellTherapy (www.betacelltherapy.org ); the NHI-sponsored Beta Cell Biology Consortium (www.betacell.org); and LuCamp (www.lucamp.org)  sponsored by the Lundbeck Foundation. These are consortium based collaborations with more than 20 research groups from around the world participating. Within these collaborations we have excellent contacts to some of the absolute top laboratories in Diabetes research.

Work in such consortia are indeed collaborative studies, where several research groups from around the world do experiments,  share and exchange information that eventually is collected and published in international top journals.