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Joint Irish-UK Endocrine Meeting 2024

Belfast, Northern Ireland
14 Oct 2024 - 15 Oct 2024

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Plenary Lectures

Diabetes & Metabolism Plenary Lecture

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Invited speaker: leveraging insights into type 1 diabetes pathogenesis from rare human pancreas biobanks

Richardson Sarah

This presentation will focus on how my team and I are using state-of-the-art imaging platforms to interrogate multiple rare pancreas biobanks from around the world to develop a clearer understanding of the processes by which beta cells are targeted and destroyed in Type 1 diabetes. I will explore how the Exeter Archival Diabetes Biobank, one of the rarest collections of recent-onset T1D pancreata, has provided unique insights into potential triggers of autoimmunity, details on...