Insulin Affordability Matters: Advocating to Make Insulin More Affordable for All
More than 1.25 million Americans live with type 1 diabetes (T1D), and this number continues to grow. They need insulin several times a day, every day, just to survive. It cannot be emphasized enough that type 1 diabetes is fatal without insulin. A person with T1D cannot just stop taking insulin, whether they can afford […]
This Stent is a Champion for Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Trials
Maribeth Stent was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the fall of 1997. “It was right around my second birthday,” said Maribeth. She is now a senior coordinator of community engagement at Breakthrough T1D, and she took part in a clinical trial of a hybrid closed loop artificial pancreas system at Yale University in […]
Get the inside scoop on T1D Champion and NHL Star Max Domi’s Book on Living and Playing with Type 1 Diabetes
NHL's Max Domi has released a book, No Days Off, which shares his story of growing up and playing hockey with type 1 diabetes.
Celebrating type 1 diabetes (T1D) champions all day, every day this November
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month! This is the month where communities across the country join hands to educate and spread awareness about type 1 diabetes (T1D) and bring attention to issues facing the T1D community. Breakthrough T1D is celebrating and commemorating this month by elevating stories of people living with and impacted by type […]
A Team in Boston Trying to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
Breakthrough T1D is funding work on multiple ways to delay or prevent the onset of type 1 diabetes (T1D). This team thinks fat tissue may hold a key to this research. Kacey Prentice, Ph.D., works with other researchers in the Hotamisligil Lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. There, she is helping […]
Breakthrough T1D Brings Together Leading Experts at Islet Targeting Workshop
Breakthrough T1D is committed is to curing type 1 diabetes (T1D) through beta cell therapies, which is a complicated problem with myriad potential solutions. One approach Breakthrough T1D is actively pursuing is through regeneration: Targeting the islet cells in the body and encouraging them to proliferate and create insulin again. To solve this problem, Breakthrough T1D […]
One Scientist’s Plan to Regenerate Beta Cells in Boston
Can we internally regenerate and protect beta cells, and therefore find cures for type 1 diabetes (T1D)? One scientist thinks so. Bridget Wagner, Ph.D., is a scientist at the Broad Institute, and her group’s research focuses on the chemical biology of diabetes, with the aim of identifying small molecules capable of increasing pancreatic beta cell […]
Can Two Viral Drugs Halt Type 1 Diabetes?
Scientists in Norway are seeking participants for a clinical trial to see if a course of anti-viral treatment may stop beta cell destruction. Pancreatic infection with some viruses, known as enteroviruses, are a likely candidate as one of the environmental causes of type 1 diabetes (T1D). The reason: Evidence of enteroviral infection has been found […]
Get To Know the Key People Behind Beta Cell Replacement Therapy in Boston
Join us for an inside look at the collaborations and skills that researchers in Boston are using to tackle the complex task of replacing beta cells in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Beta cell replacement is the art and science of taking or making beta cells from outside a person’s body, and then putting […]
Join Us “Inside the Lab at Boston”
The work of type 1 diabetes (T1D) researchers is so compelling and full of hope. But it also is a bit shrouded in curious mystery. What goes on inside the many labs all around the world? Who are these scientists, what drives them and what gives us reason to be excited about the advances they […]
