Sarah J Richardson

I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School with a passionate interest in Type 1 diabetes. I co-lead the Islet Biology Exeter (IBEx) group with Professor Noel Morgan. My research utilises three unique cohorts of type 1 diabetes patient pancreas samples and is centred around developing a clearer understanding of the disease processes by which beta cells are targeted and destroyed. I have particular interests in the role that enteroviruses and anti-viral responses may play in the disease and how age at diagnosis may impact on diabetes endotypes. I curate the Exeter Archival Diabetes Biobank (which contains the largest and rarest collection of recent-onset Type 1 diabetes pancreata in the world).