Michigan and Northern Ohio Chapter

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Breakthrough T1D Walk, Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Valley State University - North Library Lawn, Allendale Charter Township, MI

We all have a story of how T1D has changed our lives. As a Breakthrough T1D advocate, I use my voice to tell lawmakers our story of living with T1D and why research must continue.
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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! Jackson – Saturday, June 15, 2024 – Ella Sharp Park Walk Manager – Lauren (lburger@BreakthroughT1D.org) East Lansing –…
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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 in the 2024 Mustang Dark Horse line-up and YOU get to use this sweepstake to benefit your personal…
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, and the T1D community got a big win: Approved, under the brand name Tzield™! Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) is the first disease-modifying therapy for…
$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 Ball on Friday, May 6. The 37th annual gala centered on one question, “What If?” and reflected on…
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 of partnerships at the Breakthrough T1D Center of Excellence at University of Michigan housed at the Elizabeth Weiser…
Imagine – Lia Benn
Imagine discovering that the reason your one-year-old is leaking through all of her diapers is not because of a diaper manufacturer’s change, but because she has “the bad diabetes”. Learning that the “bad diabetes” is called type 1 diabetes and…
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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
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