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JDRF-funded Research
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International has made a bold impact on the research landscape by setting the agenda for type 1 diabetes research worldwide. We are not just funding basic science, but taking scientific developments and translating them into cures, treatments, drugs, and therapies. We are finding and filling gaps in research to bring about cures as quickly as possible.JDRF provided more than $156 million to diabetes research in FY08, bringing our cumulative total of research funding to more than $1.3 billion since JDRF’s founding in 1970. JDRF funded more than 1,000 research projects in 22 countries throughout the world.
JDRF has established a set of five cure therapeutic goals to guide its research funding efforts. These research goal areas hold the greatest potential to lead to breakthrough cures and treatments for type 1 diabetes and its complications:
Research In the Bay Area
Some of the most promising research is being conducted in our backyard. JDRF currently funds 39 projects at University of California San Francisco, Stanford University, and the Northern California Institute for Research and Education.
Research Events
Throughout the year we hold free events to keep you informed about current diabetes research and our progress towards a cure. These events feature a variety of speakers whom are experts in their field. For more information, contact Caroline Kinsey (415) 597-6314
Participate in a Clinical Trial
Human clinical trials are the final phase of research done before a new drug or treatment is approved for the market. Many tests are conducted before the clinical trial stage to determine whether potential treatments are appropriate for testing in people. Participating in a clinical trial is one way you can play an important role in the fight to treat and cure type 1 diabetes.
Learn More at http://trials.jdrf.org>
The Five Cure Therapeutic Goals
Replacement
An alternative to sparking the body into growing new insulin-producing cells is replacing
cells killed off by diabetes with functioning ones from a donor - similar to a heart or
kidney transplant. Recent Key Advances >
Complications
Diabetes-related complications include eye disease, nerve damage, kidney disease, and heart disease and stroke. A significant part of JDRF's research is focused on understanding how diabetes causes complications, and developing drugs, treatments, and therapies to stop that process, or reverse the impact of the different types of individual complications.
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Autoimmunity
A key part of JDRF's research is aimed at stopping or reversing the immune system response that causes diabetes: the attack on insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas. This attack must be stopped so that any therapies involving replacing or regenerating insulin-producing cells can work long-term.
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Metabolic Control
Treatments that continually monitor the body's blood sugar levels and automatically respond with the correct dose of insulin would significantly enhance metabolic control. JDRF research is focused on demonstrating that advanced monitoring tools improves the health of people with diabetes, and on developing technologies that link insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors. Such a "closed loop" system would, in effect, be an artificial pancreas.
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Regeneration
Among the fastest-growing scientific areas JDRF supports is research aimed at regenerating insulin producing cells in people who have diabetes (as opposed to transplanting cells from organ donors or other sources).
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Potential Benefits Of JDRF’s Research And Advocacy For People With Type 2 Diabetes
JDRF has always had a singular mission: to find a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Our sole focus is improving the lives of people with type 1 diabetes and ultimately delivering a cure. However, many of the research projects that JDRF funds also have the potential to benefit people with type 2 diabetes.
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