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Dr. Scharp trained and worked at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, as an academic surgeon and researcher in islet transplantation for nearly 30 years, producing over 200 publications with continuous NIH (National Institutes of Health) and JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) funding and 13 patents to date.
Collaborative studies with the late Paul E. Lacy, MD, PhD, pioneered much of the early progress in islet transplantation. Dr.'s Scharp and Lacy were also co-founding scientists of Cytotherapeutics in 1989 with Dr.'s Aebischer and Galetti and completed a clinical trial of encapsulated human islets in 1993.
Dr. Scharp served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Novocell, Inc., a Company developing conformal PEG coatings of human islets as an allograft (human to human) product for diabetics.
In 2006, Dr. Scharp founded Prodo Laboratories, Inc. that focuses on delivering high-quality products and services to the diabetes research community. In addition, he founded Invenio Institute, a not-for-profit California public benefit company focused on performing diabetes research. | 