Minutia CEO Katy Digovich is driving game-changing diabetes research - San Francisco Business Times

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Katy Digovich's company Minutia is taking on diabetes cell by cell. And for her, the race to build game-changing therapies is personal.

tried to get as far away from Type 1 diabetes as possible — literally and figuratively.

"Ultimately, I got really angry and the switch flipped. If I was born there, I would be dead. That really hit close to home," she said."I took stock of my career and threw myself into the diabetes space." It is an advance, backed recently by a grant from California regenerative medicine funding agency CIRM, that could personalize and simplify care. Now Digovich and her team are trying to bring it home.A lot of the work we've done to date has been with research-grade cell lines, and with CIRM, we are going to be doing this work with a clinically relevant cell line.

 

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