Faustman Lab

This week on Notes from the Lab we are joined by Jaykumar Menon, Co-founder and Chair of the Open Source Pharma Foundation, a global non-profit that pursues low cost cures for global unmet needs. We talk about models for drug development, the BCG vaccine and COVID-19 pandemic.

Podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TLlylD5SvLCPeMlcpzVvP

🚨🚨We have an exciting enrollment update for our pediatric clinical trials!🚨🚨

We are now fully enrolled! We have 250 pediatric patients enrolled and active in our BCG human clinical trials at the Faustman Lab. 🙌🙌

Thank you for your constant support over the years, and we look forward to continuing this journey with all of you! 💙💙

Dr. Maziar Divangahi joins us from McGill University in Montreal to discuss BCG and the evolution of tuberculosis therapies

Link to episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OA3Q2xcEhlFGALrvff6ly

On the next episode of "Notes from the Lab." we are joined by Matthias von Herrath, Vice President and Senior Medical Officer, Global Chief Medical Office at Novo Nordisk to discuss trends in type 1 diabetes

This week our guest, long time BCG researcher and colleague Giovanni Ristori joins us from Rome to discuss his clinical trials with BCG in multiple sclerosis

Please join us for a conversation with Ake Lernmark. We discuss his legendary career but also dive into his recent paper, "The rise and fall of a paradigm and conceiving a new hypothesis for type 1 diabetes"

Join us this week for a conversation with Wilfred Aniagyei and Julia Seyfarth from the University of Dusseldorf to discuss aerobic glycolysis and type 1 diabetes.

Happy new year! A new episode of "Note's from The Lab" is available on Spotify. We speak with Bhagirath Singh, from the University of Western Ontario, about the history of the early mouse studies of BCG and Type 1.

On behalf of the entire lab here at Mass General Brigham thank you for your ongoing support. And a special thank you to the hundreds of families who have volunteered to participate in the ongoing BCG Clinical trials. Happy new year.