
T1DOC March Newsletter
The Type One Diabetes Optimist Club (T1DOC) is a newly formed Optimist club organized to provide support to Breakthrough T1D,…

Groundbreaking Diabetes Study Tracks Genetic Markers For 20 Years
Twenty years after launching a groundbreaking study, the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes continues to make significant progress towards finding…

Sneaker Sales for Breakthrough T1D!
We know you all have unique associations with people from numerous different industries. The Sneaker Sales campaign is an amazing…

Merck, Samsung Bioepis Expand Collaboration with Diabetes in Mind
Merck & Co. and Samsung Bioepis—a joint venture of Samsung and Biogen Idec—said today they have expanded their year-old collaboration…

US biopharma: 180 new diabetes drugs now in R&D
US biopharmaceutical research companies are currently developing 180 new medicines to help the nearly 400 million people worldwide who suffer…

WA Team Hopes to Predict Diabetes
WA researchers are trying to create a test that would allow them to predict the chances of some people getting…

Islet cell research breaking through barriers of diabetes
Ground breaking surgery on a Medicine Hat girl, Lauren Miner, with pancreatitis involved permanently removing her pancreas, which was then…

Dr. Kowalski Biography
Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D. Chief Mission Officer Vice President, Research Dr. Kowalski oversees Breakthrough T1D-funded research aimed at accelerating the…

Metabolic control of children with type 1 diabetes improved during 12-year period
Analysis of data from a national childhood-onset diabetes register showed that a significant and clinically meaningful decrease of HbA1c level…

Violet’s Peanut Butter Sandwiches at the 2013 Walk to Cure Diabetes
“In March 2013, our two year old daughter Violet was shockingly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. At the time of…