Teresa P. DiLorenzo, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and in the Department of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a member of Einstein’s Diabetes Research Center. She was recently named the Diane Belfer, Cypres & Endelson Families Faculty Scholar in Diabetes Research. Her research program seeks to develop an improved understanding of the immunopathogenesis of type 1 diabetes, with the objective of applying new knowledge to the goals of improved diagnostic, monitoring, and therapeutic strategies for this disease.