News and Updates

You have an endocrinologist appointment but are in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. What do you do?  Especially as medical experts are urging the type 1 diabetes (T1D) community to keep their regular appointments? Today, you may have the option of having a remote doctor visit—for either regular appointments or a new health concern […]

Will we be OK? Our colleagues at Beyond Type One interviewed an insulin-supply expert at the Eli Lilly and Company about how the supply chain works, if we should we worry about insulin running out and what to do if you can’t afford your refill. We share their work as part of our joint effort […]

Pediatric endocrinologist Mary Pat Gallagher answers community questions.

Sometimes, the funding that Breakthrough T1D can provide for researchers is exactly the invitation they need to get into the field of type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Other times, sustained grants are the critical boost that someone with more experience needs in order to branch out and establish his or her own lab. Creating and […]

Every day, we receive a flurry of questions about COVID-19 from our type 1 diabetes (T1D) community and what it means for those of us living with T1D. Throughout this pandemic, we will share the top questions and responses from experts in the field. We here at Breakthrough T1D are not medical experts, but we […]

Nearly 80 percent of people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) fail to meet HbA1c goals defined by the American Diabetes Association. Despite more widely adopted diabetes technology and an increase in use, there is no improvement in clinical outcomes. This tells us that the current use of insulin alone is not enough, but vTv Therapeutics […]

Several decades ago, type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients brought their seeing-eye dogs into the offices where Jennifer Sun, M.D., MPH., now works. The complications of T1D had severely compromised or cost the patients their eyesight. Today, work led by Dr. Sun is changing all that. We share Dr. Sun’s work as part of our Meet […]

First, don’t panic! Second, wash your hands and don’t touch your face. Third, understand the facts about managing T1D and viral illnesses.

Monika Niewczas is keenly focused on kidneys. Specifically, making sure that they don’t stop working when someone develops type 1 diabetes (T1D). Niewczas, an M.D., Ph.D. and M.P.H., works as an assistant investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. For the past 15 years, she has worked […]

It’s Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month, but what are autoimmune diseases? Good question. They occur when a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks another part of the person’s own body. This response can result in a range of diseases, depending on which parts of the body are affected. Research funded by Breakthrough T1D in the 1970s and […]