News and Updates

ADA’s 86th Scientific Sessions This event is one of the largest diabetes conferences in the world, bringing together over 11,000 attendees to share and learn about cutting-edge research and advancements toward cures. Each year, Breakthrough T1D-funded researchers highlight their work, demonstrating the progress we’re making toward achieving our mission. Leading experts will present over 100 […]

ADA’s 86th Scientific Sessions This event is one of the largest diabetes conferences in the world, bringing together over 11,000 attendees to share and learn about cutting-edge research and advancements toward cures. Each year, Breakthrough T1D-funded researchers highlight their work, demonstrating the progress we’re making toward achieving our mission. Leading experts will present over 100 […]

This article was written by Amanda Gilchrist, a Participant Advisory Council Member (PAC), a Clinical Trial Education Volunteer, and Breakthrough T1D supporter. Amanda’s story details her family’s type 1 diabetes (T1D) journey, why clinical trial participation is important to her, and her experience in the PAC. The views expressed by the author are her own […]

Taking care of your mental health with type 1 diabetes is just as important as managing your blood sugar and taking your insulin.

It was identified in the late 1960s. Since then, studies have shown that it is a biomarker for beta cell function. In other words, it’s a measure of beta cell health and insulin production. If it’s low (or you have none), it indicates that your pancreas is producing little or no insulin. There was even […]

Breakthrough T1D is focused on developing drugs, or disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), that change the course of T1D for everyone affected by it—and those yet to be. That means slowing or halting the progression of the disease, preventing it from ever occurring, and reversing it entirely through immune therapies and beta cell therapies.  Note: To enlarge the image below, left click […]

One of our most promising avenues toward cures for type 1 diabetes (T1D) is cell therapies. Cell therapies replace destroyed beta cells with functional, insulin-producing cells to restore insulin therapy independence. Right now, there are nearly a dozen cell therapies in clinical testing—and OPF-310 is one of them. OPF-310 cells are derived from porcine (pig) […]

This article was written by Alecia Wesner (pictured above, right), a Participant Advisory Council (PAC) member, a Clinical Trial Education Volunteer, and long-time Breakthrough T1D supporter. Alecia’s story details her lived experiences with type 1 diabetes, participation in clinical trials, and her journey to joining the PAC. The views expressed by the author are her […]

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 […]

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 […]