The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International is the leading charitable funder and advocate for research on type 1 diabetes and its complications. Founded in 1970 by parents to find a cure for diabetes, JDRF has directed more than $1 billion in grants for diabetes research to the world’s leading laboratories, universities, and medical centers.
Dedicated to research approaches that accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of therapeutics, we aggressively pursue all promising avenues of science, make funding decisions based on vigorous scientific and lay review, and annually direct more than 80 percent of expenditures to research and research-related education. To push the pace of type 1 diabetes science towards a cure, JDRF’s $1 billion, five-year Global Campaign, From Research to Reality: The Campaign to Accelerate the Cure for Diabetes, was launched in 2004. In FY2006, JDRF funded more than $122 million in diabetes research, representing 500 grants in 20 countries.
Through volunteers and staff at more than 100 locations worldwide, JDRF also provides social, emotional, and practical support to children and adults who are newly diagnosed with diabetes, and to their families. JDRF offers a diverse support network, including family-to-family programs provided by local chapters, extensive information on www.jdrf.org, a variety of online and print publications, and JDRF¹s unique Online Diabetes Support Team, a person-to-person e-mail-based response program.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International uniquely sets the diabetes research agenda, laser focuses on the most promising opportunities, nimbly shifts that focus to take advantage of new scientific breakthroughs or gaps, intelligently engages others to complement and supplement our efforts, and continuously builds scientific success upon scientific success. Through these efforts, our illuminating hope - a world without diabetes - will become a reality.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
120 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005-4001
Phone: 1-800-533-CURE (2873)
Fax: (212) 785-9612
E-mail: jobs@jdrf.org
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