Autoimmune Life Blog

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an immensely complex disease, which means it’s going to take many minds—and many approaches—to conquer it. BRI plays a key role in this fight. Here are three ways we're using our expertise to improve research worldwide.

When Merry Malnar was 11 years old, her mom took her in for a routine physical and asked the doctor to test for type 1 diabetes (T1D). Merry seemed perfectly healthy, but T1D ran in the family and her mom feared Merry would inherit it too.

It might seem unlikely for scientists at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), a research institute focused on causes and cures for autoimmune disease, to study cancer. Scientists like Dr.

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.