Comments on: A cure for Diabetes may be closer than ever

By: Jamal

Jamal — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:11:26 +0000

I am from Morocco and diabetic type 1 since one year and i really hope that the results will be fine.

Is the joint venture with Gentech positive or not ? because , you say there is a problem of financing the research ?

Could i experiment the bht 3021 like you?

Thank’s for your reply

By: Meyer

Meyer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:45:13 +0000

thanks for asking. the drug is not being given and won’t be until phase 2 begins. i was in Boston to see Dr. Faustman last week where she drew blood for further lab research. she told me she did not expect the phase 2 trial to start before next fall (september 2010?). she said she needs $8 million to start phase 2 and currently has $2 million. the question of whether my beta cells are totally destroyed or are dormant and can be woken up to produce insulin is a big question. all the endos i speak to say it is impossible. if Dr. Fasustman manages to get my beta cells to work then it is possible. i hope we get to see the results.
meyer

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:06:59 +0000

Any update on your trial with this drug? Have you seen any improvement.

And a question: I thought that after a few years the beta cells had been completely destroyed. Does this means that a drug would only be effective for newly diagnosed diabetics? Or can the beta cells reappears somehow?

By: Alyssa Varner

Alyssa Varner — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:00:54 +0000

Ive been diabetic for 5 or 6 years now im only 14 years old. I hate being a diabetic… Im so glad they are trying out this new drug. I really hope it works and eliminates my diabetes…

By: Meyer

Meyer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:43 +0000

Everyone should want to know about this other trial. Do you already have type 1 diabetes? Have you ever noticed that most new trials only want you if you have had diabetes for days or weeks? Dr Faustman¹s laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital (www.faustmanlab.org ) and Harvard Medical School is running a unique trial to remove the bad T cells with a safe targeted intervention in people living with the disease. She hopes to see the pancreas regenerate if the disease causing T cells can be removed. Her animal data showing this cure was first published in 2001 and now worldwide labs all show end stage diabetic mice can be cured. I sure wish I was a mouse but I am a human with diabetes.

Do you want to know something even better? Dr Faustman is using a cheap safe old vaccine to indirectly try these unique human experiments and this trial is totally supported by philanthropy, public donations and not the pharmaceutical industry.

I am in the clinical trial and hope and pray that after 53 years with Type 1 diabetes I will be cured. I really support Dr. Faustman’s work and hope she can get the financial support needed to carry on her work.

If you want to learn more go to: http://www.faustmanlab.org

If you want to donate go to:
https://www.massgeneral.org/give/donate/faustman-lab.aspx

Meyer Stender
type 1 – 53 years, pumping for 10

By: Kristy

Kristy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:38:29 +0000

That’s exciting news! I can’t wait to find out more about it and I hope you have positive results from the active drug. Will be nice to hear about your experience first hand. Thanks!