Vince Garvie

My name is Vincent Garvie. I’m a self-taught researcher and full-time father of three. Over the last six years, while raising my children at home, I’ve independently studied biology, immunology, and regenerative medicine.

This project began from a deeply personal place—my girlfriend lives with Behçet’s disease, a rare and aggressive autoimmune condition. As I learned more about how it affects the body, I started asking a new kind of question: What if the immune system’s destructive pathways could be redirected to heal instead of harm? That idea became the foundation for my research.

Since then, I’ve published a three-paper research series exploring a regenerative therapy strategy that combines umbilical cord stem cells, spiny mouse-inspired scarless regeneration, and immune pathway reprogramming using IL-22 and TH17 modulation. Though I don’t come from a university or lab, I’ve built this concept through independent research, lived experience, and a relentless drive to find new answers.

This campaign is my first public step toward turning that theory into a working model—and eventually, a therapy that could help people living with Behçet’s and beyond. I’m committed to collaboration, transparency, and open science.

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Full paper and sources: https://medium.com/@vdgarvie.bio/healing-beh%C3%A7ets-from-within-a-three-paper-strategy-for-redirecting-th17-immunity-d20d732db006

April 2025