JDRF has a new name, Breakthrough T1D
I just got the announcement in my email this morning although it was announced on June 4th. The long-standing, original, research and advocacy organization, Juvenile Diabetes (Research) Foundation, has renamed and rebranded itself into Breakthrough T1D. The organization originally began as ‘Juvenile Diabetes Foundation,’ then moved to ‘Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’ to highlight its research activities, and then ‘JDRF,’ to recognize that not everyone who has, or gets, T1D is a child.
Medscape has some interesting statistics about people living with type 1 diabetes, for instance the median age worldwide is 37 years old.
This year’s rebranding is to bring more attention to the fact that the organization works on behalf of all people with T1D, regardless of age, and that their broader portfolio of work includes trials and projects that are under the radar like funding devices and biological cures, including stem cell trials and research.
It’s worth a look around their new website to see they hope to accomplish for the future, and where they’ve traveled from to get here. That’s just what I intend to do later today.
