The company founder Anders Essen-Möller reveals the story behind the company's founding and his mission to stop type 1 diabetes in its tracks. The film also features board member Karin Hehenberger, shedding light on the patient’s perspective, and board member Dr. Mark Atkinson speaking of the importance of the enzyme GAD in type 1 diabetes.

“ If it was not for the hundreds of clinical sites and their personnel, investigators, patients, investors, not to mention the fantastic entrepreneurial, yet diligent, Diamyd team - this current transformational precision therapy for autoimmune diabetes based on genetics, should probably still remain undiscovered.
How can I thank you all ? "

- Anders Essen-Möller, Chairman of the Board

A new facility for manufacturing of biological products is being set up in Umeå, the Capital of Västerbotten County in Sweden. The primary purpose is the manufacture of recombinant GAD65, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the investigational medicine Diamyd^®, an antigen-specific immunotherapy currently in late-stage clinical development.

Diamyd Medical has chosen Cytiva’s FlexFactory, a configurable single-use bioprocess platform for the manufacturing process that is based on a baculovirus-insect cell expression system.

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