JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Our mission is to improve lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat T1D and its complications.

Curing T1D is a global, coordinated effort and JDRF is at the forefront, strategically aligning with research, industry, governments, foundations, academia, and clinicians to create a world without T1D.
Our goal is an ongoing stream of life-changing therapies, moving from development to commercialization, to keep people with type 1 diabetes healthy and safe today until we reach our ultimate goal of cures and universal prevention of T1D.