Episode 99: Marlaina's Reason Why

On this episode we get to hear from Marlaina Goedel. 14 months ago, Marlaina was fully, functionally cured of living with Type 1 diabetes. The procedure was the first of it's kind in the world, performed by Dr. Pior Witkowski at UC Med. With this process they inserted donor islet cells into Marlaina's liver and used the new monoclonal antibody Tegoprubart as the main antirejection infusion.

After 25 years of living with Type 1 and having dealt with too many hospitals stays to recall and far too many times having to be rescued by her loved ones, including her daughter she no longer lives with T1D.

During this episode Marlaina shares answers to every question that you could think of answering. And as Marlaina mentioned, "We did it!" She took this step for us all, not because only her own experience with diabetes.

Marlaina was a pure gem to record with and her story is story of hope for everyone. To-date there have been 12 people in the clinical trial after Marlaina's successful transplant. So far, everyone is on schedule to be insulin dependent like Marlaina (6 in total during the second phase already are).

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