Thermalin Diabetes also has received a $254,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer Grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. This grant is intended to support the development of one of Thermalin's insulin analogs through large animal testing. When the company achieves the grant's specific aims, it will be eligible for significant additional grant funding to advance the compound to human clinical trials.

Among the company's early backers is Dick Dietrich, co-founder of Integral Inc. and a long-time supporter of the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland and the Dietrich Diabetes Research Institute.

Weiss' scientific work with insulin has been enriched by a gifted group of students and fellows. Colleagues at CWRU are Qing-xin Hua, S. Nakagawa, Zhu-li Wan, Nelson Phillips, Faramarz Ismail-Beigi and Jonathan Whittaker, and long-term collaborators are Guy Dodson (University of York, UK), Panno Katsoyannis (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NY) and Don Steiner (University of Chicago).

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