The EuroSPK Study group was created during the 4th Spitzingsee 1997 workshop in Kühtai, Austria. Thanks to W. Land for the incentive to gather European Centres--with Switzerland and Israel--and propose them to joint efforts and share data in the field of pancreas transplantation. Today, two prospective randomized studies have been already performed; a lot of data and results have been generated and worldwide spread. The spirit of the group will continue with a new interest in innate immunity and prevention of the ischemic reperfusion injury in pancreas transplantation.
Squifflet, J.-P., Malaise, J., Van Ophem, D., Marcelis, V., & Land, W. G. (2008). The history of the EuroSPK - Study Group. Acta Chirurgica Belgica (Bilingual Edition), 108(1), 67-69. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/94964 (Original work published 2008)