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Type 1 diabetes: An immunological apocalypse

Allison Green

• 26 September 2014
  5.35pm - 5.50pm

• York Medical Society
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• FREE admission
  No booking required

• Wheelchair accessible
  (through the garden)

Event details

The immune system is our personalised army, unique in weaponry it is exceptionally equipped to destroy any infectious particle that challenges our survival. However, in some individuals the immunological army turns against our own tissues.

In type 1 diabetes insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas are targeted for destruction, increasing sugar in the bloodstream to dangerous levels and causing life-threatening conditions. In this talk, we will explore the challenges scientists face in the search of a cure for type 1 diabetes taking on the most formidable army ever conceived.

This is one of twelve thought-provoking short talks throughout the evening at York Medical Society on all things health-related by researchers from across eight different departments at the University of York. The talks are divided into three sessions over four hours, starting at 5pm and ending at 9.20pm, which are interspersed with refreshments and a chance to speak to the researchers, some of whom have been researching for years and some of whom are just at the start of their careers.

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