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January 28, 2025
Interview with Dr. Megan Smithmyer: Type 1 Diabetes Biorepository (BRIDge Study)
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October 23, 2024
Innovation Fund Spotlight: Single-Cell CRISPR Screening To Explore Genetics and Autoimmune Diseases
Together, Jessica Hamerman, PhD, and John Ray, PhD, are exploring the genetic roots of autoimmune disease using single-cell CRISPR screening.
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October 23, 2024
Innovation Fund Spotlight: Lab-Grown Beta Cells Meet State-Of-The-Art Imaging To Answer New Questions About Type 1 Diabetes
BRI investigators Eddie James, PhD, and Caroline Stefani, PhD, are teaming up to take a unique approach to type 1 diabetes research.
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October 4, 2024
Kazushige Ninomiya, PhD: Finding New Answers in Cancer
Read about the questions Dr. Ninomiya will ask about one of the most devastating forms of cancer.
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October 4, 2024
Kurt Griffin, MD, PhD: Exploring New Ways to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
Learn about exciting new type 1 diabetes research Dr. Griffin is taking on at BRI.
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October 4, 2024
Allyson Byrd, PhD: Can Gut Bacteria Help Treat Cancer?
Why does a medicine work for one person, but not another with the same disease? Dr. Byrd is seeking answers in a place that some people might find surprising.
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October 2, 2024
Out-Of-The-Box Idea Yields Important Answers About Lupus
Hayley Waterman, PhD, asked an outside-the-box research question about lupus — and found groundbreaking answers.
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October 2, 2024
Advances in T1D Prediction: An Algorithm To Help Define When a Person May Develop T1D
Learn how a team led by Carla Greenbaum, MD, is using “fancy math” to better understand not only if a person will develop T1D, but when.
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September 24, 2024
Second Annual BRI T1D Family Day
June 1, 2024, marked the second annual Benaroya Research Institute T1D Family Day.
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September 24, 2024
Working Toward Cures
Did you know that if risk screening results show you are in the early stages of T1D, you may be eligible to participate in a type 1 diabetes prevention study?
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July 3, 2024
Investigating a Little-Understood Cell in MS
Find out how Estelle Bettelli, PhD, and her team are examining guardian cells that may play a big role in MS.