Richard Oram explains how recent advances have meant we can now delay type 1 diabetes with immunotherapy. To do this we need to be able to identify people at very high risk of developing Type 1 diabetes. Richard thinks genetic analysis could play a part in this identification.

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Jennifer and her mother Helen explain how being born Prader Willi syndrome has had a lifelong impact. One challenge is that Jennifer is continually hungry, and so limiting access to food is needed at all times.

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Professor Maggie Shepherd reflects back on her career and how she made the massive steps from being a clinical nurse to becoming a nationally leading researcher and educator.

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Andrew Hattersley describes how teamwork and mutual support has helped the Exeter diabetes research team expand and flourish over the past 30 years

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Grace Bervoets talks about living with cystic fibrosis and cystic fibrosis related-diabetes. Amanada Stride, who works as a diabetes consultant helping people with cystic fibrosis related-diabetes, explains the many challenges of this unusual type of diabetes.

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Tom Staniford talks about living with the MDP syndrome, an extremely rare genetic condition. MDP syndrome includes Mandibula hypoplasia, Deafness, and Progeroid features amongst its widespread features. Tom developed Type 2 diabetes as a teenager because of a loss of fat under the skin (lipodystrophy) despite being very thin and active. Tom has used his communication and media skills to help other people with MDP syndrome get diagnosed and receive the right care.

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Farah O'Regan talks about how her son who had Down syndrome and a severe congenital heart condition needing surgery diagnosed in pregnancy and then developed Type 1 diabetes on day 2 of life. In early childhood he was diagnosed with 2 more autoimmune conditions, coeliac disease and hypothyroidism. Researcher Matt Johnson explains his research which has established that Down syndrome directly results in very early-onset autoimmune diabetes.

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Abby Gardener describes how she was diagnosed with Wolfram syndrome after developing both insulin-treated diabetes and diabetes insipidus (when the urine cannot concentrate) and how this has impacted her life. Professor Tim Barrett talks about how, throughout his career, he has been researching and providing care for patients with Wolfram syndrome.

He explains that it is now recognised that there are a range of features that can result from the genetic change (WFS1 spectrum disorder) and that not every patient will have all the severe changes previously described in Wolframs syndrome.

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