Magali Fontaine
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Department of Pathology 300 Pasteur Dr L235 MC 5324 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 724-6518 Fax (650) 725-6902Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 736-4250Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Clinical Pathology
- Pathology
Administrative Appointments
- Assistant Director of Blood Services, Stanford Blood Center (2004 - present)
- Associate Director, Transfusion Service (2004 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Excellence in Teaching, Pathology (2008)
- M.D. Summa cum laude, University of Paris V (10-31-1989)
Professional Education
| Residency: | University of Illnois IL (1999) |
| Fellowship: | Mayo Clinic - Rochester MN (2000) |
| Internship: | University of Illnois IL (1995) |
| Board Certification: | Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology (2002) |
| Board Certification: | Transfusion Medicine, American Board of Pathology (2002) |
| Medical Education: | Rene Descartes University/Cochin Port-Royal School of Medicine, France (1989) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Our interest lies at the frontier of Transfusion Medicine by developing and optimizing new cellular therapies such as islet transplantation for patients with Type 1 Diabetes.
Our primary focus has been to treat IDDM-I with pancreatic islet-cell replacement therapy instead of insulin-injections. We have studied pancreatic islet preservation and function after their isolation from the pancreas and we have developed new conditions of isolation to optimize islet cell function for transplantation. This new therapeutic approach still needs refinements, which we are working on, to prevent long term islet-graft failure from recurrence of autoimmunity, rejection, and/or insulin resistance.
Publications
- A preconditioning regimen with a PKCε activator improves islet graft function in a mouse transplant model. Cell Transplant. 2013
- A novel allocation strategy for blood transfusions: investigating the tradeoff between the age and availability of transfused blood. Transfusion. 2012; (1): 108-17
- Enhanced function of pancreatic islets co-encapsulated with ECM proteins and mesenchymal stromal cells in a silk hydrogel. Biomaterials. 2012; (28): 6691-7
- Harnessing the immunomodulatory and tissue repair properties of mesenchymal stem cells to restore β cell function. Curr Diab Rep. 2012; (5): 612-22
- How we treat: risk mitigation for ABO-incompatible plasma in plateletpheresis products. Transfusion. 2012; (10): 2081-5
- Protein polymer hydrogels: Effects of endotoxin on biocompatibility. J Biomater Appl. 2012
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