Autoimmune Life Blog

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Blog Scientific T1D Islet Organoid
February 10, 2025

Innovation Grant Yields Exciting Advances and Additional Funding

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Blog 3D Biological Macrophage
February 10, 2025

Computational Skills Grant Fuels Collaboration and Discovery

Learn how Susana Orozco, PhD, Hannah DeBerg, PhD, and Jessica Hamerman, PhD, are working together to apply the latest tools to long-standing research questions.
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Blog 3D Biological Antibody
February 10, 2025

Catching Autoimmune Diseases Before They Start

Find out about new advances in autoimmune disease screening from a team led by Cate Speake, PhD.
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Featured BRI Building Exterior 2024
February 10, 2025

A Letter from our President

Read exciting updates and learn what’s on the horizon for 2025 from BRI President Jane Buckner, MD.
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Megan Smithmyer
January 28, 2025

Interview with Dr. Megan Smithmyer: Type 1 Diabetes Biorepository (BRIDge Study)

Dr. Smithmyer is a staff scientist at Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) in the Center for Interventional Immunology. She has kindly agreed to speak with us about what the BRIDge Biorepository is and its importance to the work that scientists like her do in the realm of type 1 diabetes.
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Left: Jessica Hamerman, PhD; right: John Ray, PhD
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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Left: Eddie James, PhD; right: Caroline Stefani, PhD
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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Blog Main Image - 3D Biological Cells Cancer
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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Blog Main Image - T1D Diabetes Mother Son Testing
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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Blog Main Image - 3D Biological T Cells Attacking Cancer Cell
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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Hayley Waterman
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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