Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) is the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization, which helps make everyday life with T!D better while diving toward cures.
Our mission is to improve lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to treat, prevent, and ultimately, cure T1D and its complications. Always, we are guided by a single purpose: As we drive towards curing type 1 diabetes, we make everyday life better for the people who face it.
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone people need to get energy from food. T1D strikes both children and adults, and its onset has nothing to do with diet or lifestyle. People with T1D depend on external insulin, via injection or infusion with an insulin pump, to survive. There are no cures. Breakthrough T1D is working to change that.
