Blog Posts focused on: Sound Life Project (SLP); Type 1 Diabetes (T1D); Biorepository
May 1, 2014
New Biorepository Studies Celiac Disease
Celiac disease can be difficult to diagnose and has no cure. Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) recently launched a new biorepository for the disease to collect blood samples, tissue samples and medical histories of people with the disease.
February 1, 2014
Klorfine Grant Supports Innovation
Robert Vernon, PhD, a research associate member at BRI, and his team are pioneers in the development of engineered replacements for tissues and organs lost through disease or trauma.
December 15, 2013
Biorepositories Accelerate Discovery
One of the nation’s greatest research treasures was developed at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) and is being enhanced every day. The treasure is more than 100,000 blood and tissue samples contained within huge freezers.
October 1, 2013
Free of Managing Type 1 Diabetes For a Day
Annie Shultz is determined that history won’t repeat itself. Her father, Richard Shultz, was diagnosed at age 19 with type 1 diabetes. Annie watched her father struggle with complications her entire life.
September 8, 2013
A Champion of Research: Gaylia Meitzen
Gaylia Meitzen lived her life with joy and courage. Though she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 16, she enthusiastically took up fishing, boating, golfing and traveling, and she even climbed Mount Rainier.
