Autoimmune Life Blog

Principal Investigator Karen Cerosaletti, PhD, and colleagues have applied single-cell science to better understand type 1 diabetes with some surprising and significant findings.

Benaroya Research Institute will celebrate eight years of partnership with the Boeing Classic at this year’s tournament on August 20-26.

Our family learned a lot about type 1 diabetes in the weeks after our son Peter was diagnosed just a few days before his third birthday.

Are you competing in this year’s Benaroya Research Institute Seafair Triathlon? If so, you may know something about autoimmune disease – and what we’re doing to fight it.

The 2018 Benaroya Research Institute Seafair Triathlon, taking place on July 22 at Seward Park, offers participants multiple events on a picturesque course while raising funds and awareness for Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI).

The endocrinology doctors, nurses, and educators who geek out with us on basal rates. The researchers at places like Benaroya Research Institute, working relentlessly toward better treatments and preventions. The school nurses who keep our kids healthy and learning day after day.

Lauren remembers clearly the day she learned that her diseases were all autoimmune diseases. “I went to a talk by the former head of BRI, Dr.

Did you know family members of people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have a 15 times greater risk of developing the disease themselves?  And did you know that all it takes to find out if you are at risk of developing T1D is a simple risk screening?

As a research nurse practitioner, I provide care for chil­dren and adults participating in type 1 diabetes research at Benaroya Research Institute.

Like many people with a connection to a chronic disease, I do my best to keep up with news about trials and studies that could, just maybe, yield new preventions and treatments. Unfortunately, science does not always succeed in the traditional sense.