Thomas Suszynski, B. Bm. En.

Thomas Suszynski is a second-year M.D. / Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He received his Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota in 2006. In the last several years, Tom has cultivated an immense respect for the magnitude of the problem of diabetes. From his clinical and research experiences, both at the University and in industry, he has garnered a passion to pursue more effective therapies and an eventual cure to the disease.

After his first two years of basic sciences medical training, Tom will perform research at the Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation (DIIT) as part of his doctoral dissertation. Currently, he is spending his free time laying the framework for his future thesis research. His research interests revolve around improving the clinical outcome of islet cell transplantation in the treatment of type I diabetes mellitus.