Willy Gepts (March 11, 1922 – January 31, 1991) was a Belgian pathologist and diabetes researcher. He worked from 1965 as a professor of pathology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and later at the newly founded Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel. With his research on pathological anatomy of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, he made important contributions to force up today view that the referred to as type 1 diabetes, type of diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disease.
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11 March 1922
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Died |
31 January 1991 (aged 68)
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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