Medchem Seminar Series - Sarah Richardson, University of Exeter, UK

Speaker:

Sarah Richardson

University of Exeter, UK

Title:

Leveraging new knowledge from the human pancreas to advance and improve understanding and treatment of Type 1 diabetes

Sarah Richardson is an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter with a passionate interest in Type 1 diabetes.  She co-leads the Islet Biology Exeter (IBEx) group. Her research utilises unique cohorts of type 1 diabetes pancreas and is centred around understanding the disease processes by which beta cells are targeted and destroyed.  She has particular interests in the role that enteroviruses and anti-viral responses play in the disease, and how age at diagnosis may impact diabetes endotypes. She curates the Exeter Archival Diabetes Biobank, which contains the most extensive and rarest collection of recent-onset Type 1 diabetes pancreata globally.