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

Parkinson’s drugs could provide new avenue to treat diabetes-related vision problems
Dopamine-restoring drugs already used to treat Parkinson’s disease may also be beneficial for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, a leading…

Google Smart Contact Lens Project
Google is now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless…

Diabetes Scholars Foundation Scholarship Program
The Diabetes Scholars Foundation Scholarship Program is available to incoming freshmen seeking a higher education at an accredited four year…

Cancer drug shows evidence of protection against type 1 diabetes
Research shows that low doses of a class of cancer drugs called lysine deacetylase inhibitors have protective properties against the…

Breakthrough T1D inks pact with Brehm Center to explore fate of beta cells in type 1 diabetes
Breakthrough T1D announced the funding of an approximately $1 million collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Brehm Center and the…

New blood vessels in the pancreas cure type 1 diabetes in mice
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri have come across a chance discovery which has enabled…

Breakthrough T1D Volunteer Opportunity
We are looking for an Intern/Volunteer for the Breakthrough T1D Rocky Mountain Chapter. All interested parties please contact SKesner@JDRF.org. This…

A Breaking Update On Special Diabetes Program Renewal
This Thursday, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee will mark up a bill that would permanently address the reimbursement rates for…

4 Companies Completely Changing the Way We Treat Diabetes
Click here to check out how far we have come in T1D treatments and what these four companies are doing…