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Announcing 2024 Breakthrough T1D One Walk Dates!
It’s a new year and it’s time to SAVE THE DATES for our 2024 Michigan & Northern Ohio Chapter Walk events! …
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This year, Ford and Breakthrough T1D celebrate 25 years of partnership! To celebrate this milestone, this will be the ONLY convertible produced...
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FDA Approves Tzield™—A Watershed Moment for the T1D Community
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) weighed the evidence for teplizumab to delay type 1 diabetes (T1D) in at-risk individuals,...
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$1.3 M Gift to Breakthrough T1D Center of Excellence at University of Michigan from Ron and Marvel Jones, Carrie Jones-Barber, and Christopher Lee Jones in Memory of Connie Jones Forcier for Type 1 Diabetes Research
DETROIT, MI, May 10, 2022 — More than 400 people gathered at Detroit’s Ford Field to participate in the Breakthrough T1D Promise...
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Ann Arbor Michigan Research Update 3/9/22
On Wednesday, March 9th we were joined by an esteemed group of panelists to learn more about the research priorities and progress...
Leadership
Whether you donate your time or dollars, life-changing breakthroughs in T1D treatments and therapies couldn’t happen without you.
Lynsie DeLoss Estes
Executive Director
Jessie Jimenez-Schlicht
Sr. Development Director
Krystal Dunlap
Sr. Development Director
April Gasbarre
Director of Development, Donor Relations
Jamie Bell
Development Director
Jillian Crane
Development Director
Sarah Fritz
Development Manager
Elle Timmerman
Development Coordinator
Thank You to Our Partners
Our corporate partners take raising funds and awareness for T1D research to new heights.
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Breakthrough T1D Partner since: 1983
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Breakthrough T1D Partner since: 2013
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Breakthrough T1D Partner since: 2003
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Breakthrough T1D Partner since: 2012
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Breakthrough T1D Partner since: 2011
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Breakthrough T1D Partner since: 2018
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Breakthrough T1D Partner since: 2018