Talking with Dr Aveni Haynes

To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, funders of the ENDIA Study, JDRF Australia, took time out to chat with one of our lead researchers, Dr Aveni Haynes, to learn more about her CGM study, involving ENDIA participants, and her career in type 1 diabetes research.

“Although we don’t yet know what causes type 1 diabetes, we do know that it starts very early in life and that it can take months to years before symptoms and signs appear. My research is using continuous glucose monitoring devices, to investigate how and when sugar patterns change during these early stages of type 1 diabetes, in very young children at risk. This detailed data can be analysed to identify when the condition is progressing, and the children may benefit from intervention with disease modifying therapies in the near future.”

You can find the interview here: https://jdrf.org.au/talking-with-dr-aveni-haynes-research-into-early-detection-of-t1d-in-young-children-at-risk/