Stream 6 Session #9: Breakthrough T1D presents the future of T1D treatment: disease-modifying and cell therapies
Tracks
Meeting Room 109 & 110
| Thursday, August 20, 2026 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
| Meeting Room 109 & 110 (Level 1) |
Speaker
Dr Dorota Pawlak
Chief Scientific Officer & Director T1dcrn
Breakthrough T1D
Chairperson
Biography
Ms Fiona McGregor
Credentialed Diabetes Nurse Educator/ Team Leader
Bendigo Health
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Jenny Couper
Academic Lead, Women's And Children's Health
Womens And Childrens Hospital And Adelaide University
Screening and monitoring of early stage T1D, models of care
2:00 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Prof John Wentworth
Endocrinologist and Senior Clinical Researcher
Royal Melbourne Hospital / St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
Disease-modifying therapies for T1D (all stages)
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
All Speakers
Combined Q&A including person(s) with lived experience of screening and/or trials
2:30 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Jeremy Church
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Q&A
2:30 PM - 2:40 PMBiography
Prof Wayne Hawthorne
Director
National Pancreas And Islet Transplant Laboratories, Westmead Hospital
Pig islet xenotransplantation to cure T1D
2:40 PM - 2:55 PMBiography
Dr Jacqueline Schiesser
Team Leader
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
iPSCs to cure T1D
2:55 PM - 3:10 PMBiography
Dr Shane Grey
Head Of School Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
UNSW
Genetically engineered islets to cure T1D
3:10 PM - 3:25 PMBiography
