May 29, 2025
Innovation Fund Spotlight: State-of-the-Art Genome Editing To Understand Disease and Develop New Therapies
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January 28, 2025
Interview with Dr. Megan Smithmyer: Type 1 Diabetes Biorepository (BRIDge Study)
Dr. Smithmyer is a staff scientist at Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) in the Center for Interventional Immunology. She has kindly agreed to speak with us about what the BRIDge Biorepository is and its importance to the work that scientists like her do in the realm of type 1 diabetes.
October 23, 2024
Innovation Fund Spotlight: Lab-Grown Beta Cells Meet State-Of-The-Art Imaging To Answer New Questions About Type 1 Diabetes
BRI investigators Eddie James, PhD, and Caroline Stefani, PhD, are teaming up to take a unique approach to type 1 diabetes research.
July 3, 2024
BRI’s Innovation Fund Sparks New Discoveries
Learn about one of the first projects launched with this funding, where Eddie James, PhD, and Caroline Stephanie, PhD, are exploring a new approach to treat type 1 diabetes.
April 1, 2024
New Frontiers in Immunology: Studying Diseases in the Tissues Where They Happen
Learn how Eddie James, PhD, Peter Morawski, PhD, and other BRI scientists are exploring tissue-specific immunology and why this approach is fueling discoveries.
June 30, 2023
To Belgium and Back Again to Study Beta Cells
BRI researchers are working to develop a groundbreaking new approach to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D). They aim to turn T cells that cause T1D into regulatory T cells (Tregs) that protect you from T1D.
June 15, 2021
An Unprecedented Way To Study Rheumatoid Arthritis
The first symptoms Linda Sloate experienced were aching hands and pain that shot up her arms. She had carpal tunnel surgery in both hands. Then she felt pain in her feet while she was teaching kindergarten and running around after her three children.
February 7, 2021
Understanding What Causes IBD
James Lord, MD, PhD, has a simple way of explaining the immune system. “It’s not a homogenous pot of stew,” he says. “It’s a carefully orchestrated dance, and doing the right thing at the right time is critical. But it’s very hard to predict the choreography.”
December 21, 2020
Volunteering in a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial: BRI Team Members Share Their Experience
Without clinical research participants, we might not have groundbreaking cancer treatments like immunotherapy or vaccines for polio, rubella and other life-threatening diseases.
December 10, 2019
A Quest to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis
In April 2017, Steve Gordon and his daughter, Callie Triller, hiked to Machu Picchu in Peru. Seven months later, Steve started experiencing severe joint pain and learned he had rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
August 2, 2019
Operation Shooting Star Helps BRI Fight Autoimmune Disease
Gretchen Schoenstein has dealt with multiple autoimmune diseases — including Hashimoto’s disease and sarcoidosis — for over two decades.
