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Faustman Lab @FaustmanLab

Researching a cure for type 1 diabetes

Joined April 2012
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Older drug reprograms white blood cells, improves blood sugar in type 1 diabetes reuters.com/business/healthc…

Older drug reprograms white blood cells, improves blood sugar in type 1 diabetes

We also report on promising early data that could produce a better option for treating C. difficile-caused diarrhea, and the first vaccine for preventing Lassa fever.

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TB vaccine from the 1920s shows promise in diabetes trial nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

TB vaccine from the 1920s shows promise in diabetes trial

Nature - The shot reduced insulin use for people with type 1 diabetes and another autoimmune condition.

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Competition for obesity drugs, clinical blind spots, and more news from ADA statnews.com/2026/06/07/comp… via @statnews

Competition for obesity drugs, clinical blind spots, and more news from ADA

You're reading the web edition of STAT's ADA in 30 Seconds, from the American Diabetes Association's annual conference.

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Thank you everyone who came to our posters sessions today at #ADASciSessions Final posters are available on our faustmanlab.org/publications… These trials were a decade in the making. We would not be here without all of the families impacted by type 1 diabetes who supported us.
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Putting the final touches on our presentations for @AmDiabetesAssn #ADASciSessions on June 7th. including "late breaking" updates on the Phase II BCG type 1 diabetes clinical trials. Get in touch if you are heading to New Orleans. professional.diabetes.org/sc…
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Thank you to my colleagues Steve Ansell and Matthew Maurer and the entire teams at Mayo Clinic for this amazing lymphoma collaboration published online today in the American Journal of Hematology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

High Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 2 in Serum Is Associated With Inferior Overall Survival...

Soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 (sTNFR2) is a member of the TNF superfamily whose normal bodily distribution is largely limited to low level expression on lymphoid cells. It has emerged as...

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Join us this week on "Notes from the Lab" as we speak with Matthias von Herrath Vice President and Senior Medical Officer, Global Chief Medical Office at Novo Nordisk to discuss trends in type 1 diabetes"open.spotify.com/episode/393… #type1diabetes
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This week our guest, long time BCG researcher and colleague Giovanni Ristori joins us from Rome to discuss his clinical trials with BCG in multiple sclerosis  open.spotify.com/episode/6AT…

BCG Clinical Trials in Multiple Sclerosis with Giovanni Ristori

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Please join us for a new episode of Notes from the Lab. Ake Lernmark joins us to discuss his legendary career but also dive into his recent paper, "The rise and fall of a paradigm and conceiving a new hypothesis for type 1 diabetes" open.spotify.com/episode/2wQ…

Origins of Type 1 Diabetes with Åke Lernmark

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Over the last three years we have enrolled 250 children in our clinical trials and had the honor of meeting a lot of families and see the challenges they face. Psychological Impact of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus on Parents of Children With Diabetes cureus.com/articles/419345-p…

Psychological Impact of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus on Parents of Children With Diabetes

Introduction Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic condition with a rising incidence worldwide in both developed and developing countries. A chronic and progressive disease, diabetes i...

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Happy new year. a new episode of "Note's From the Faustman Lab" is available on Spotify. We speak with Bhagirath Singh, from the University of Western Ontario about the history of the early mouse studies of BCG and Type 1. lnkd.in/eKwvfGpH
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Are Vaccines Doing More Than Just Preventing Infection? medscape.com/viewarticle/are…

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Thank you Christine Benn @StabellBenn for joining the current episode of open.spotify.com/show/5ZNO3k…. Conversations on topics related to the amazing BCG vaccine

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Podcast · Faustman Lab Notes · Notes from the Faustman Lab, Conversations about the BCG Vaccine

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Today's WSJ: Emerging evidence finds that some vaccines have broader or even unrelated health benefits in addition to the sicknesses they target wsj.com/health/wellness/the-… via @WSJ

The Unexpected Ways Vaccines Could Boost Your Health

As political leaders question vaccine safety, scientists point to studies that show the shots might have unrelated benefits.

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Our new podcast series, "Notes from The Faustman Lab" is live on Spotify. open.spotify.com/show/5ZNO3k… Conversations on the #type1diabetes #bcgvaccine. The first two episodes are live. Camille Locht from the Pastuer Institute and Mihai Netea from Radboud University. Stay tuned.

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Podcast · Faustman Lab Notes · Notes from the Faustman Lab, Conversations about the BCG Vaccine

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Another major study demonstrate the diverse benefits of BCG. Effect of BCG Danish and oral polio vaccine on neonatal mortality in newborn babies weighing less than 2000 g in India: multicentre open label randomised controlled trial (BLOW2) bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2025…

Effect of BCG Danish and oral polio vaccine on neonatal mortality in newborn babies weighing less...

Objective To test the effect on all cause neonatal mortality (aged ≤28 days) of a dose of BCG Danish vaccine and oral polio vaccine (OPV) administered to newborn babies weighing <2000 g. Design...

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Despite increased use of CGMs, HbA1c average above 8% for T1Ds. Great article by @MiriamETucker. medscape.com/viewarticle/dia…
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Thank you Chicago!!! Greatt to see old friends and provide updates on the BCG T1D clinical trials including our fast-enrolling pediatric trial -- over 200 enrolled. hashtag#ada2025 hashtag#type1diabetes hashtag#diabetes @AmDiabetesAssn @faustmanlab
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Six more BCG treated patients significantly improved their HBA1c and new evidence, shorturl.at/xh8Ww, the spleen, triggered by BCG, is critical in glucose regulation, We are actively enrolling pediatric T1D trials. Contact lab if you are interested. #bcg4T1D #T1D
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