News and Updates

What’s happening? Continuous ketone monitoring (CKM) is on its way. A new paper in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, titled “International expert recommendations on the application and utility of continuous ketone monitoring for people with diabetes,” was published by Breakthrough T1D and expert collaborators, spearheaded by our Chief Medical Officer, International, Thomas Danne, M.D., Ph.D. […]

How quickly a year goes by—and a lot has happened for type 1 diabetes (T1D) in 2025! In these last few weeks leading up to the new year, Breakthrough T1D would like to take a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come in the past 365 days. Read on for the greatest T1D accomplishments […]

What’s happening? Today, Breakthrough T1D co-hosted an event with leading international diabetes organizations to discuss cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 1 diabetes (T1D)—where we are, challenges that remain, and how we can work together in Europe and beyond to address this need for the T1D community. The focus of the event: Doing more for CVD […]

Bonjour from Montreal, Canada, where the latest and greatest in type 1 diabetes (T1D) research was presented at the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) 51st Annual Conference. ISPAD is a yearly highlight of the T1D conference calendar, and this year was no exception. Scientists, clinicians, researchers, industry members, people with diabetes, and […]

To drive our mission forward, Breakthrough T1D financially supports type 1 diabetes (T1D) research through training awards and grants to academic scientists or clinicians, investments in promising companies, conference support, and more. Here, we take a deeper dive specifically into our training awards offered to early-stage researchers to understand the impact and outcomes that these […]

There is always breaking, inspiring news in the world of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research—and that news was front and center at the 2025 European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Meeting. This annual event is one of the largest diabetes conferences in the world, and Breakthrough T1D staff, partners, funded researchers, and more […]

Breakthrough T1D’s newest publication outlines a roadmap for beta cell replacement therapies for type 1 diabetes.

This meeting focused on the role of the EU in addressing the needs of the T1D community and accelerating T1D breakthroughs.

Breakthrough T1D's Medical Affairs team hosted experts in islet transplantation to discuss a clinical roadmap for manufactured cell therapies.

Breakthrough T1D recently published two peer-reviewed journal articles. One detailed burdensome unmet needs in the T1D community and identified key steps we can take to meet these needs. The other used real-world data to better understand American T1D demographics and predict changes in the next decade.