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Diabetes Research Institute Develops Revolutionary Oxygen-Generating Biomaterial to Enhance Islet Survival
on March 1, 2012 - Category: Institutions
The Diabetes Research Institute Tissue Engineering team develops revolutionary oxygen-generating biomaterial. Results published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Read More »
JDRF T1D Month
on October 28, 2011 - Category: Institutions
JDRF is kicking off the first annual T1Day on 11.1.11. We're asking all members of the type 1 diabetes community to help us make this day a huge success by raising awareness about type 1 diabetes on this day and throughout the month of November.
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Artifical Pancrease Project
on August 22, 2011 - Category: Institutions
Almost 3 million people in the United States suffer from Type 1 diabetes, and the problem is steadily worsening. Last year, UnitedHealth Group predicted that half of all adults in the United States will have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020.
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JDRF Announces Celebrity Advocates and Town Hall Panelists for Children's Congress 2011
on June 13, 2011 - Category: Institutions
Leading figures from the entertainment, television, and professional sports arenas will join more than 150 children and teenage delegates from all over the United States and abroad, as well as JDRF's International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore, for JDRF's 2011 Children's Congress from June 20 to June 22, 2011. Read More »
Meet the JDRF Delegates from 2011 Children's Congress
on March 17, 2011 - Category: Institutions
The JDRF Children's Congress program was inspired by a boy from Massachusetts named Tommy Solo when he was 8 years old. He heard some adult JDRF volunteers talking about going to Washington, D.C., to talk to Congress and thought it would be great if kids could go, too, because no one knows better what it's like to live with type 1 diabetes than kids who have it.
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Dr. Aaron Kowalski on Artificial Pancreas
on March 8, 2011 - Category: Institutions
Link to a ustream broadcast by Dr. Aaron Kowalski on the Artificial Pancreas Project. Read More »
Diabetes Research Institute: Be Part of the Cure
on November 1, 2010 - Category: Institutions
Diabetes is a devastating disease that causes so much pain and suffering. You know that diabetes robs children of the freedom and innocence of childhood; that it takes lives prematurely; and that patients worry about their future as they try to manage diabetes every minute of every day. Read More »