News and Updates

Closing the gap between access to and adoption of type 1 diabetes therapies is a mission priority. Chris Dunn represents these efforts in action.

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 […]

What is the pipeline? Every new medical device, therapy, treatment, and drug—including those for type 1 diabetes (T1D)—goes through the drug development pipeline. Getting a new therapy or device from the earliest stages of research eventually into the hands of people with T1D is a complicated process. Science takes time (from years to decades!), money […]

There are three ways we can get to cures for type 1 diabetes faster: cell therapies, early detection, and disease-modifying therapies.

What’s happening? Today, Bayer shared data from the phase 3 FINE-ONE clinical trial. These results, which were presented at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week in Houston, TX, showed that finerenone (Kerendia™/Firialta™) significantly reduces urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR), a measure of kidney damage, in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) associated with type 1 […]

What’s happening? Earlier today, Eli Lilly and Company announced that they are launching two new clinical trials for baricitinib in type 1 diabetes (T1D). These phase 3 trials will investigate whether the drug can delay T1D onset or progression and will open for recruitment soon. Read on to learn more about the trials, why this […]

Breakthrough T1D had the pleasure of speaking with Patti Columbe, a participant in Vertex’s pivotal trial for the manufactured islet therapy zimislecel (formerly VX-880). Patti has been living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) for nearly 39 years. This is one of the most exciting T1D trials in terms of getting us closer to cures for […]

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 […]

This past week, the FDA and Sanofi, the maker of Tzield, made an important announcement. Tzield, the first disease-modifying therapy approved for delaying onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes (T1D) in people with stage 2 T1D, has been accepted into the FDA Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) program for people with stage 3 T1D. […]