“My whole life I was told a cure is coming and that I won’t have to deal with this very long, but then a cure never came,” said Pizzato, a principal scientist at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies.
Pizzato was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 4 years old. She was too young to understand it is an autoimmune disease. She didn’t know her immune system was attacking cells in her pancreas that are responsible for producing insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar. But from an early age, she began to question why people become sick.
