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Personalizing Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes

Some people with T1D are “fast progressors,” while other people’s disease moves more slowly. BRI researchers are on a quest to learn why — and they’re getting closer to finding answers.
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Jerry Nepom

Dr. Jerry Nepom, who founded BRI’s Diabetes Research Program in the 1980’s, and who led BRI’s growth as a world-class research institute for 3 decades, answered our questions about the state of T1D research: 
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Why Down Syndrome Holds Key Clues about Autoimmunity

Almost half of Down Syndrome patients have autoimmune diseases – but no one knows why. That’s why Dr. Rebecca Partridge and BRI’s Dr. Bernard Khor are leading one of the first studies that investigates autoimmunity in people with DS.
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Improving Diabetes Research Worldwide

Improving Diabetes Research Worldwide

Here are three ways we're using our expertise to improve type 1 diabetes research worldwide.
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How BRI is Fighting Type 1 Diabetes

BRI researchers have spent more than two decades pursuing one of T1D research’s holy grails: a way to halt the disease before insulin production stops.
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Pinpointing the Connection Between Cancer and Autoimmune Disease

Scientists at BRI are exploring the links between cancer and autoimmunity–and BRI is building an infrastructure to help them make progress against both types of disease.
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Big Data Fuels Autoimmune Disease Discoveries

As gene sequencing becomes integral to BRI’s research, the bioinformatics team is being confronted by more and more data, and more opportunities to fuel discoveries.
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Discovering a New "Attacker" Cell in Diabetes

Using single-cell science, Karen Cerosaletti, PhD, and colleagues discovered a unique T cell that is very destructive in type 1 diabetes.

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