Fighting Diseases

Is Hydroxychloroquine Safe for Autoimmune Diseases?

COVID-19 has put a therapy called hydroxychloroquine in the spotlight — and, at the same time, shrouded it in confusion.
Fighting Diseases

Engineering T Cells to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes Takes Next Step Towards Human Clinical Trial

With a newly awarded grant, BRI and Seattle Children's Research Institute are making strides towards generating an engineered T cell product that can be used in a clinical trial.
Community Stories

Meet the 10-Year-Old Who is Helping BRI Fight T1D Amid COVID-19

BRI Clinical Research Participant Zoey Brooke's in-person study visits may have been canceled due to the pandemic, but Zoey isn’t giving up.
Living With A Disease

T1D and COVID-19: Coping with the Unknown

The father of a child with type 1 diabetes breaks down why COVID-19 feels so familiar to his family and many others living with autoimmune disease who must confront the unknown every day.
Community Stories

How A BRI Nurse Is Helping Type 1 Diabetes Patients — and Her Family — Cope With COVID-19

COVID-19 has flipped BRI Clinical Research Nurse Dana VanBuecken’s world upside down. But she’s pushing forward and finding new ways to support her family, research participants and COVID-19 patients.
Fighting Diseases

Another Landmark T1D Discovery

Alice Long, PhD, and her colleagues made a discovery that opens the door to potential new type 1 diabetes treatment strategies.
Fighting Diseases

Matt Dufort, PhD: Crunching Data to Cure Diabetes

Matt Dufort, PhD, fights diabetes one data point at a time.
Fighting Diseases

Innovative Collaboration Brings Researchers Closer to Understanding Type 1

Dr. Cate Speake is on a mission to understand why type 1 diabetes occurs in some patients and not others.
Fighting Diseases

Breakthrough Study Delays Type 1 Diabetes

Two twins sisters participated in a breakthrough type 1 diabetes led by Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet.
Living With A Disease

Parenting a Child With T1D: This Might Sound Familiar

When you strip it all down, caring for a child with type 1 diabetes is not all that exotic. Here are three examples.

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