Thursday, 25th of January 2024 at 11:15 am – 11:45 am
Welcome by: Sabine Baumgart, Bertram Bengsch, Desiree Kunkel, Henrik Mei, Axel Schulz, Sarah Warth
Welcome talk by Ezio Bonifacio
Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus der TU Dresden, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden
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Ezio Bonifacio, Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, has been actively working in the area of type 1 diabetes prediction and prevention for over 35 years. He has been instrumental in developing, harmonizing and applying measurements of autoimmunity to understand the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and to aid in the disease prediction. He has been active in searching for immune changes early in the disease process and trying to understand why islet autoimmunity has a peak incidence in the first years of life. With GPPAD, he and his collaborators have opened newborn genetic screening for primary prevention of type 1 diabetes and together with Anette Ziegler has implemented general population childhood screening for pre-symptomatic type 1 diabetes.