—SAN DIEGO, October23, 2019—The San Diego Chapter of Breakthrough T1D announced Tandem Diabetes Care, a leading insulin delivery and diabetes technology company, as Platinum Sponsor for the Breakthrough T1D One Walk on Saturday, November 9th in Balboa Park, San Diego. Tandem Diabetes Care has participated in the Breakthrough T1D One Walk for seven years as a Corporate Walk team, and this will be their ninth year as a One Walk Sponsor.
“Tandem Diabetes Care is so proud to support the amazing work that Breakthrough T1D and its volunteers do for the San Diego diabetes community,” said Brian Hansen, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Tandem Diabetes Care. “I look forward to the day I have to find another job because Breakthrough T1D successfully achieved its mission to cure type 1 diabetes.”
Each year, Breakthrough T1D One Walks bring together more than 900,000 people to change the future of T1D. Many of these people have T1D themselves, and many more are friends, family, or coworkers of someone challenged by this disease.
“At Tandem, we agree getting innovative ideas off the ground requires the experience, opinions, and actions of many,” said Hansen. “We cannot accomplish great things without successful collaboration, both inside and outside of the company. There’s no better way to live these words than to support Breakthrough T1D and the diabetes community.”
Tandem Diabetes Care will be matching dollar for dollar their employee giving to the Breakthrough T1D One Walk with the hopes of making 2019 a record year for corporate giving at Tandem.
The Breakthrough T1D One Walks bring together local families, corporations and schools with the common purpose of better treating, preventing and ultimately curing Type One Diabetes (T1D), a life-threatening disease that affects over 1.5 million Americans. The expected 3,500 walkers will be raising funds to help support scientific research in the area of T1D. Breakthrough T1D is currently funding over $44 million in support of 21 active research projects in Southern California including seven projects right here in San Diego, including research grants at The Salk Institute, Scripps Research Institute, UCSD, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, and ViaCyte. For anyone interested in joining Breakthrough T1D and Tandem Diabetes Care at the One Walk, register at:
secure3.convio.net/jdrf3/goto/teamtandem
About Tandem Diabetes Care
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (www.tandemdiabetes.com) is a medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of people with diabetes through relentless innovation and revolutionary customer experience. Tandem takes an innovative, user-centric approach to the design, development and commercialization of products for people with diabetes who use insulin. Tandem’s flagship product, the t:slim X2™ insulin pump, is capable of remote software updates using a personal computer and features integrated continuous glucose monitoring. Tandem is based in San Diego, California.
t:slim X2 is a trademark of Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
About Breakthrough T1D
Breakthrough T1D is the leading global organization focused on type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Breakthrough T1D’s goal is to progressively remove the impact of T1D from people’s lives until we achieve a world without T1D. Breakthrough T1D collaborates with a wide spectrum of partners and is the only organization with the scientific resources, regulatory influence and a working plan to bring life-changing therapies from the lab to the community. As the largest charitable supporter of T1D research, Breakthrough T1D is currently sponsoring $300 million in charitable research in 21 countries. For more information, please www.breakthrought1d.org
About Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that impacts millions of people around the world. The disease occurs when the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone essential to turning food into energy. Without insulin, glucose from food stays in the blood, where it can cause serious damage to all of the body’s organ systems. It requires constant carbohydrate counting, blood-glucose testing, and lifelong dependence on injected insulin. With T1D there are no days off, and there is no cure.
