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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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Breakthrough Week: Every Step Forward Starts with You!
Breakthrough Week Join us for Breakthrough Week, a week-long celebration of action, community, and impact for our Breakthrough T1D Walks this fall. Each day brings a new fundraising challenge, a new way to ensure success, and a new opportunity to inspire…
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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, and the T1D community got a big win: Approved, under the brand name Tzield™! Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) is the first disease-modifying therapy for…
Breakthrough Week: Every Step Forward Starts with You!
Breakthrough Week Join us for Breakthrough Week, a week-long celebration of action, community, and impact for our Breakthrough T1D Walks this fall. Each day brings a new fundraising challenge, a new way to ensure success, and a new opportunity to inspire…
$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…
The Power of a Positive Attitude – Jolie Farah
Hello, my name is Jolie Farah. Hard to believe but I was diagnosed with type one diabetes almost a year ago on September 29, 2019, when I was only eight years old. T1D has impacted my life in so many…
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.
Ford Motor Company
McKinley
Team Schostak
Plastipak/Absopure
Douglas J
FriendShip Food Stores
Delta Dental
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
