Michigan and Northern Ohio Chapter

The Michigan and Northwestern OH Chapter is proud to serve our type one community. We represent a unique blend of geography, industry and individuals. Our common mission of finding a cure for T1D and supporting the entire type one community comes to life in our local events and initiatives. Join us!

Events

Find community and raise money for T1D research. Breakthrough T1D events are unforgettable experiences.

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.  

Mary Horn

Grassroots Advocate, Breakthrough T1D Advocacy

Get Involved

Whether you donate your time or dollars, life-changing breakthroughs in T1D treatments and therapies couldn’t happen without you.

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Find community and raise money for T1D research. Breakthrough T1D events are unforgettable experiences.

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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…

Fundraising

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…

Access and Affordability

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…

Awareness Clinical trials General Life with T1D Prevention Research

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…

Awareness Fundraising General Life with T1D

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.

Contact Us

24359 Northwestern Highway
Suite 125
Southfield, MI, 48075

248-355-1133

248-355-1188

Mail and Donations Address

PO Box 5069
Hagerstown, MD, 21741-5069