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Home > About Breakthrough T1D UK & our impact > Our network > Our ambassador Theresa May
Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2013, is an Ambassador for Breakthrough T1D UK’s global research programme.
Taking up the role in April 2020, Mrs May said that since her own diagnosis, she has “seen the progress Breakthrough T1D UK’s international research programme has made.”
Mrs May has been a Member of Parliament since 1997. From 2002 to 2003 she was the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2010, she was appointed Home Secretary, a position which she held for six years before becoming UK Prime Minister. She was Prime Minister for three years.
She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes whilst Home Secretary and went on to become the first serving world leader to live with the condition.
Her Ambassador role has seen her champion Breakthrough T1D UK’s Connect Immune Research initiative, which brings together researchers from across autoimmune conditions to uncover the common threads in their work – meaning greater efficiency and, hopefully, new treatments, faster.
Mrs May said: “Connect Immune Research is an example of the pioneering innovation that makes our UK scientific research community so globally renowned. It represents a different way of working across research disciplines, collaborating over shared goals. Innovative approaches like this will help the medical research sector adapt to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.”
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