Dr. Bryan Laffitte, Director of Drug Discovery Pharmacology at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, talks about progress his lab is making in producing an effective treatment for type 1 diabetes in the video below. Don’t miss key takeaways from the video at the end of this article!
Key Points Include:
- Type 1 diabetes is an inherited auto-immune disease in which the body destroys the pancreatic beta cells that create insulin, a hormone that regulates blood glucose levels
- Dr. Laffitte and his team research how to create more beta cells by determining what compounds cause these cells to divide and proliferate
- When these compounds were tested in trials involving animals with type 1 diabetes, their blood glucose levels and beta cell counts were properly restored!
- The next step for Dr. Laffitte’s lab will be testing the safety of these compounds for human use!
- A treatment utilizing regenerative medicine would be a serious aid for those with type 1 diabetes who must perform frequent and costly insulin injections routinely
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