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Video: Sanford Health's Journey to Cure Type 1 Diabetes Receives Major Boost
Date:7/10/2008

te beta cells. Type 1 diabetes currently affects 3 million people in the United States, including Linda Broin who has suffered from the disease for almost 30 years. It is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. It often strikes during childhood, makes patients dependent on insulin for life and carries the constant threat of devastating complications.

"Todd and Linda Broin believe the Sanford Project will bring them and millions of others relief from this disease," added Krabbenhoft. "Through the Sanford Project, our research team will hope to either spur the body to copy existing functioning beta cells or to coax the pancreas to create new ones. When people with the disease have regenerated beta cells, they can begin making their own insulin again."

Regeneration research focuses on triggering the body to re-grow the insulin-producing beta cells that have been killed by the autoimmune response. It also works to prevent destruction of the newly regenerated cells by the same autoimmune reaction. The intent of the Sanford Project will be to focus on bench-side research and closely integrating translational research opportunities with clinical treatment. The Sanford Project is one of four initiatives outlined after a transformational gift of $400 million by South Dakota businessman and philanthropist Denny Sanford in 2007.

"I am absolutely thrilled by this extraordinary gift," stated Denny Sanford. "Todd and Linda's amazing initiative and generosity has established a great pace for accomplishment for the Sanford Project. This will capture the attention of the best research scientist candidates from around the world. I am grateful, touched and inspired by this extraordinary leadership, and I add my heartfelt and sincere thanks along with the millions who suffer with type 1 diabetes. Thank you, Todd and Linda Broin, for jump starting the quest for the cure in such a dramatic
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