News and Updates

Douglas Melton, Ph.D., can now produce unlimited quantities of beta cells. He now wants to evade the immune attack. See our video to find out more.

Breakthrough T1D has been closely monitoring the data on how COVID-19 affects people with T1D and new information about the COVID-19 vaccines.

The FDA regulatory review is now under way for teplizumab, to prevent or delay T1D in at-risk individuals. The target action date is July 2, 2021.

Dr. Robert Langer co-founded Moderna, who gained emergency use approval for its COVID vaccine. Watch the video to find out how Breakthrough T1D is helping to advance his research.

A Breakthrough T1D-funded clinical trial will test if a JAK inhibitor will preserve beta cell function in children and young adults with recently diagnosed T1D.

“We’ve been too focused on [insulin],” Jeremy Pettus, M.D., an endocrinologist at UC San Diego, says. Watch the video to find out why.

JDRF-funded researchers have discovered a protein on immune cells that, when it is disabled, could halt immune cell memory.

SFC Fluidics, a Breakthrough T1D partner, received a breakthrough device designation for its interoperable insulin delivery pod. How is it different? Find out here.

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In 1974, two teams showed that diabetes is associated with antibodies against beta cells, which helped establish T1D as an autoimmune disease.