Professor Wisia Furmaniak

Honorary Visiting Professor, Cardiff University

Professor Furmaniak is co-inventor on 14 patents, inventions that are used in diagnostic kits in clinical laboratories worldwide. She has developed new diagnostic methods for the most common autoimmune disease (Graves’ disease); this has led to changes in guidelines and improved patient care. She has developed methods that simultaneously test large numbers of samples for type 1 diabetes. This helps identify individuals at risk of disease who might benefit from prevention strategies. Professor Furmaniak has also devised the first new treatment in 70 years for Graves’ disease, as well as treatments for thyroid eye disease and thyroid cancer.