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Aug 18, 2026
A new era for type 1 diabetes treatment
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7:35James GallagherHOST
Renuka, can I start with you? Can you just tell me how big a difference this drug is making to patients' lives?

Renuka DiasGUEST
So since sort of 1921, we haven't really had anything apart from insulin for people living with type 1 diabetes, but this drug, the drug called teplizumab, I think is a step change in diabetes care, in fact.

Renuka DiasGUEST
So we move from being reactive, where we are trying to treat someone's symptoms when they've already got high blood sugars, to proactive state, where we identify individuals who don't have any symptoms, but who are at very high risk of going to need insulin at some point, and trying to effectively change that disease trajectory, both by the delay, but potentially also by changing how the disease manifests in the future, although we don't know how that would work.

Renuka DiasGUEST
So in the UK, teplizumab can be given to individuals who are at a specific stage in their journey of type 1 diabetes, and that stage is called stage two.

Renuka DiasGUEST
And if I just take a few seconds to describe what that means is that when you are at high risk of going onto insulin, you develop, uh, markers in your blood called antibodies or autoantibodies.

Renuka DiasGUEST
So those tell us that the cells in the pancreas, the insulin-producing cells, are, are already being attacked.
Breakfast Show Podcast 28-07-2026: Teplizumab: Delaying Diabetes & Buy Now, Pay Forever
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Daniyal AhmadHOST
If you can explain the difference between its stages and why delaying progression is so much important.

Renuka DiasGUEST
So just to sort of give a background, type one diabetes is what we call an autoimmune condition.

Renuka DiasGUEST
So that means that the normal immune system that helps us fight things like infections decides to attack our own cells.

Renuka DiasGUEST
So in type 1 diabetes, the cells that come under attack are those cells that produce a hormone called insulin, which helps keep our blood sugars in the normal range.

Renuka DiasGUEST
And for decades and decades and decades, hundreds of years, we diagnosed type 1 diabetes at the point that the blood sugar went too high.
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Daniyal AhmadHOST
But if you can tell us that, how should we measure its success? And do people need to worry about any sort of side effects as well?