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Former Biotech Scientist with T1D Explains Why Eledon’s Therapy Isn’t the Universal Cure

7/9/20261 hr 8 min

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What would a cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D) actually look like, and when might it be available? These are pressing questions within the diabetes community following recent Eledon trial news. People are beginning to be cured. But when will this become a reality for the many?

In this special two-part episode, Dan Heller, a highly knowledgeable scientist who has been living with T1D even longer than I have, explains everything. Grab your coffee, settle in, and turn up the volume—you won't want to miss a word he shares!

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  1. Ginger Vieira· Host0:00

    Welcome to the Diabetes Nerd Podcast. My name is Ginger Vieira, and I am your host. I've also lived with type 1 diabetes since 1999. We're doing something a little different this week. We're publishing two episodes because my interview with Dan Heller went on for two hours. We dug so deep into the immune system, into the fact that there's actual multiple types of type 1 diabetes, and I don't even just mean type 1 and type 1.5, also known as LADA. I mean, Dan revealed that there's type 1A and type 1B. We're gonna get into that. So episode one with Dan is really... Or part one, if you will, is really all about the complexities of what a cure requires for type 1 diabetes, what we've already done to cure 1,500 people who've had islet cell transplants using very toxic immunosuppression drugs compared to Eladon's Tegoprubart, which is proving to be very low in toxicity and much safer. And we're talking in this first episode about the complexities of the immune system, that you don't just have immune cells that just fight. There's actually different types of activity in your immune system and different types of soldiers, if you will, okay? In the second part of my interview with Dan, we dig into the FDA

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