News and Updates

“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.

Prestigious award recognizes nonprofit organizations using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

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

Breakthrough T1D is launching T1Detect, a community-based education and awareness program to expand screening to the general population.

Family is perhaps the ultimate example of The Power of Us. As NDAM wraps up, three sibling pairs tell us about the special bond that forms between children living with T1D and their siblings.

NDAM Insight: The parent of a child diagnosed with T1D shares how he found community and how Breakthrough T1D helped him and his family navigate the diagnosis.

Florida teenager Jonny Feltingoff was tragically killed last April. How his family turned their grief into a way to give back to Breakthrough T1D and why it is the perfect way to honor Jonny.

Editor’s note: This educational content is made possible with support from Anthem Foundation. Editorial control rests solely with Breakthrough T1D. My T1D Diagnosis at 25 I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in February of 2017, about one month before my 25th birthday.  Before then, I had been feeling sick for a few months […]