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Susie Marques
Susie's daughters diagnosed in 2015 and 2016.
Research is so crucial to help understand why and how type 1 diabetes happens and to get to the point where we can prevent it.
Susie has five children, with both her daughters living with type 1 diabetes. Susie volunteers as a patient advisor for an immunotherapy clinical trial, called USETKID. It’s testing if a drug can retrain the immune system and halt its attack in children who’ve just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.