WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ImmunoMolecular Therapeutics, Inc. (“IM Therapeutics”), a leading innovator in the field of precision medicine for autoimmune diseases, today announced it has launched a Phase 1b study as a multiple ascending dose (MAD) trial. The study is in patients who have type 1 diabetes (T1D), an as yet incurable autoimmune disorder that affects nearly 1.6 million Americans, and who also have a specific genetic trait known as HLA-DQ8, present in about 60% of T1D patients. Variants in certain genes called human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are known to play a strong role in activating an autoimmune response.