A note from the founder.
T1D Cure Intelligence exists because of three people in one family.
My wife was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in her 50s. Late-onset Type 1 is less familiar to most people than the childhood-onset version — there was no gradual adjustment, no growing up inside the routine. One day her pancreas worked; a short time later it didn't, and every day since has run on insulin, carb math, and glucose checks that don't take a day off.
A few years later, MK contracted T1D at 17 years old — in the middle of a volleyball tournament in Nashville. She was young enough that Type 1 diabetes isn't something that interrupted her adult life; it's something she's grown up inside of, through the rest of school, into college, and now into her own career.
That career turned out to connect directly back to this project. She's now a Physician Assistant graduate student, Class of 2026, and she serves as T1D Cure Intelligence's Medical Advisor. Every post that touches patient safety, treatment implications, or immunosuppression risk goes through her clinical review before it's published — not because it's a formality, but because it's the reason "we verify it" is a promise we can actually keep, not just a tagline.
There's a third thread to this that I didn't expect to find. I was adopted as a baby. Years later, I located and reconnected with my biological mother — and learned that she has lived with diabetes since her early 20s. Three generations of my family, across both sides, have now lived with diabetes, most of it before I ever thought to build anything about it.
I didn't start T1D Cure Intelligence to sell hope. Headlines calling a research result a "cure" are common; durable cures — meeting all three bars of no external insulin, durable glucose regulation, and no chronic systemic immunosuppression — are not. I started this account because I've spent years watching three people I love manage a disease that the public conversation routinely oversimplifies, in both directions: sometimes too bleak, sometimes too triumphant. This is the account I wish had existed for us when my wife and daughter were each diagnosed — one that tells you what's actually been proven, what hasn't, and what it would really take to call this solved.
Follow along for the real state of the cure race — Cure Radar, Hype Check, and the Cure Score Leaderboard, updated as the evidence changes.
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