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Youth Delegates Living with Type 1 Diabetes and Katie Bone, American Ninja Warrior Champion who Lives with Type 1 Diabetes to Provide Testimony at a Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing
More than 1.5 million Americans live with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition that causes the pancreas to make very little insulin or none at all
Wednesday, July 9, Katie Bone, an American Ninja Warrior champion who lives with type 1 diabetes, will testify during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to share how advances in type 1 diabetes research (T1D) have made a difference in her life and call on Congress to renew the Special Diabetes Program (SDP). The SDP has contributed to nearly every breakthrough to cure, treat, and prevent T1D and its complications, including in cell therapies that are paving the way to cures. She will be joined by Dr. Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, and 170 Breakthrough T1D 2025 Children’s Congress delegates. The youth delegates will travel to Washington, D.C., from all 50 states and Breakthrough T1D’s international affiliates in the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, the Netherlands, and Canada. Formerly known as JDRF, Breakthrough T1D is the leading global type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization.
What: Katie Bone, American Ninja Warrior champion who lives with type 1 diabetes to testify at Senate hearing in support of the Special Diabetes Program and policies that will accelerate type 1 diabetes cell therapies.
Who: Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF), Katie Bone, Dr. Griffin Rodgers, NIH, Senator Susan Collins, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, youth living with type 1 diabetes and their families
When: Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 10 a.m.
Where: The Dirksen Senate Office Building, 50 Constitution Ave. NE, Washington, D.C. 20002, Room 106
