For this episode of SC@L digested, PhD student Ana Maria Cujba interviews Professor Nico De Leu from the University Hospital of Brussels. He talks about the challenges of combing clinical work and lab work, and his research on the role of a growth factor (VGFA) on the function of beta cells which produce insulin in the pancreas, and how the growth factor is involved in vascularisation of beta cell transplants for patients with diabetes...