#120 Dr. Denise Faustman Discusses her Research
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Scott talks to Dr. Denise Faustman of Harvard Medical School and the Immunobiology Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital about her research into the BCG vaccine and its role in regulating T cells in the immune system. Dr. Faustman discusses her Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials and the effects this vaccine has had on blood sugar for the Type 1 diabetic participants. She explains the goals of her research and what her team has learned so far in the early trials.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 120 of the Juice Box Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | This episode is sponsored today by DexCom and Insulate. |
| 0:08.6 | In this episode I'm going to be speaking with Dr. Denise Faustman |
| 0:11.5 | about the research she's doing into the possible cure for type |
| 0:14.5 | one diabetes. So what I know about Dr. Faustman just comes from what I read and what I see and from what I hear in the community. |
| 0:31.0 | Generally speaking, what I think I hear is Dr. |
| 0:34.2 | Fauzman found this old vaccine and it cures type 1 diabetes. Yay! |
| 0:38.8 | Except I thought that can't be right, can it? I need to talk to Dr. Faustman to find out. What you're going to hear in this hour is |
| 0:48.1 | clarity from from Dr. Faustman. She is going to be 100% clear with you about the goals of her trial, about the |
| 0:56.5 | desires of what she thinks she's found, the desires of what that's going to accomplish, both in the long and the short term. |
| 1:05.0 | And I think it's going to be very, very valuable for you to listen to. |
| 1:09.0 | There's going to be a little sciencey stuff in the very beat in the middleish third where Dr. |
| 1:15.6 | Fasman's going to talk for a while a couple minutes about something. |
| 1:18.6 | I encourage you to just do your best to listen and understand because it is going to feed your |
| 1:24.4 | understanding for what comes for the rest of the episode. Please listen all the |
| 1:27.9 | way through to the end. This one is full of good information. Also remember that |
| 1:32.2 | nothing you hear on the |
| 1:33.1 | Juice Box podcast should be considered advice medical otherwise. Always |
| 1:36.3 | consult a physician before making changes to your health care plan. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm Dr. Denise Peltman and I'm the director of the |
| 1:44.4 | immunology labs here at Massachusetts General Hospital and I'm an |
| 1:49.3 | associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. |
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