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Breakthrough Week: Every Step Forward Starts with You!
Breakthrough Week Join us for Breakthrough Week, a week-long celebration of action, community, and impact for our Breakthrough T1D Walks this fall. Each day brings a new fundraising challenge, a new way to ensure success, and a new opportunity to inspire…
FDA Approves Tzield™—A Watershed Moment for the T1D Community
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) weighed the evidence for teplizumab to delay type 1 diabetes (T1D) in at-risk individuals, and the T1D community got a big win: Approved, under the brand name Tzield™! Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) is the first disease-modifying therapy for…
$1.3 M Gift to Breakthrough T1D Center of Excellence at University of Michigan from Ron and Marvel Jones, Carrie Jones-Barber, and Christopher Lee Jones in Memory of Connie Jones Forcier for Type 1 Diabetes Research
DETROIT, MI, May 10, 2022 — More than 400 people gathered at Detroit’s Ford Field to participate in the Breakthrough T1D Promise Ball on Friday, May 6. The 37th annual gala centered on one question, “What If?” and reflected on…
Ann Arbor Michigan Research Update 3/9/22
On Wednesday, March 9th we were joined by an esteemed group of panelists to learn more about the research priorities and progress of partnerships at the Breakthrough T1D Center of Excellence at University of Michigan housed at the Elizabeth Weiser…
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Whether you donate your time or dollars, life-changing breakthroughs in T1D treatments and therapies couldn’t happen without you.
Tara Ploeger
Ohio Territory Executive
Jamie Bell
Chapter Director – Northern Ohio Chapter
Sarah Fritz
Development Manager – Northern Ohio Chapter
Kelsey Boeckermann
Community Engagement Manager – Ohio Territory
Hannah Keaton
Operations Assistant – Ohio Territory
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