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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.
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Matt Dufort, PhD: Crunching Data to Cure Diabetes

Matt Dufort, PhD, fights diabetes one data point at a time.
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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.
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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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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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A Research Pioneer Gives Back

When Virginia Mason researchers needed patients with type 1 diabetes to test some of the first insulin pumps in the 1970s, Mary Buse bravely volunteered.
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Growing From the Disease He’ll Never Outgrow

The Wedgwood Elementary School's Diabetes Kids are part of a small but mighty community built on care, comfort and normalcy.
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Biking 800 Miles to Get Closer to a Cure

Some people go the extra mile for their favorite cause. Roberta Winter went 800 miles past that.
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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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