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Improving Lives While We Search for a Cure
Our dedication to finding a cure focuses not just on this long-term need, but also on improving everyone’s life today by working to reduce the life-threatening aspects of diabetes through tight glucose control.
Glucose Control - Tight Control
JDRF’s Glucose Control research aims to establish tight blood glucose (or blood sugar) control for people at all stages of type 1 diabetes, from those who have been recently diagnosed to those who have been living with the disease for a long time. Tight glucose control improves quality of life, reduces the risk of developing complications, and helps other therapies work more effectively.
JDRF prioritizes two lines of research that have high potential to improve the lives of people with diabetes in the near-term. The first is the development of a closed-loop artificial pancreas, a device that will revolutionize diabetes care by enabling people to achieve tight blood sugar control while avoiding dangerous lows and highs, reducing the risk of the disease’s devastating complications. The second is the development of novel insulins that are faster acting, glucose-responsive, and easier to use and manage than existing options.
Specific research goals, funding facts, and more information
What Will Your Support Mean?
Your support of JDRF’s Glucose Control research will accelerate progress toward the development of an artificial pancreas and of novel insulins and other methods to help people with type 1 diabetes achieve tight blood glucose control and reduce their risk for complications.
For more information, or to make directed gift to glucose control therapies research, contact Jack Hickethier (415) 597-6303.
Artificial Pancreas Project - A Bridge to the Cure
JDRF has taken the lead in accelerating the development of an artificial pancreas – a system that can revolutionize diabetes care and dramatically improve the lives of people with type 1 diabetes. Now, JDRF is poised to actively drive the creation of the first commercially available artificial pancreas by partnering with industry. The ultimate endpoint of this effort is a safe and effective artificial pancreas that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is available to people with type 1 diabetes.
Visit http://www.artificialpancreasproject.com for videos, blogs, and recent progress.
What Will Your Support Mean?
Your support of JDRF’s Artificial Pancreas Project will help people with type 1 diabetes achieve tight blood glucose control and reduce their risk for complications.
For more information, or to make directed gift to the Artificial Pancreas Project, contact Jack Hickethier (415) 597-6303.
Novel Insulins
Recent Research Progress
To help you better understand what is involved in participating in a clinical trial, and to simplify the process of finding trials that are of interest to you (or your child), JDRF has created an online customized clinical trials listing service - the JDRF Clinical Trials Connection.
JDRF offers a variety of local and national e-publications to help you stay connected to the information you care about.
As the leading charitable funder of diabetes research worldwide, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International offers a wide variety of grants and fellowships to qualified diabetes researchers.
Visit the JDRF International website to learn more.
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