Nicole Johnson, a member of the JDRF International Board of Directors, has been named the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team’s 35th Lightning Community Hero for her work as a diabetes consultant and advocate. The award honors members of the Tampa Bay community for their outstanding charitable work with a $50,000 donation to the recipient’s designated [...]
Carol Lurie, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, and a founder of JDRF, passed away on Friday, February 15th. Carol and her husband Erwin played a vital part in JDRF and its contributions to diabetes research, offering continual inspiration, guidance, and support working at the chapter, national, and international levels. We will miss her.
As we head into the holiday season and toward a new year, we are especially thankful for our friends and supporters around the world. As the stories in this issue of Countdown show, the type 1 diabetes (T1D) community has much to celebrate at year’s end. December also marks the halfway point of JDRF’s fiscal [...]
I am excited to bring this new issue of Countdown to our readers. It is an issue that speaks profoundly to the core mission of JDRF—research. At the heart of what we do is our dedication and commitment to discover, develop, and deliver advances that cure, better treat, and prevent type 1 diabetes (T1D). As we work [...]
Countdown is written and produced by our Marketing and Communications team here at JDRF. As the leader of the team and JDRF’s chief marketing officer, I am pleased to bring our new issue to you. We have so much news and information to share—and it is our hope that you will share it with everyone you [...]
Government Day is much more than just a day. At the 13th annual JDRF event, held March 3 to 6 in Washington, D.C., 130 grassroots leaders and advocates from across the country came together to discuss upcoming advocacy goals and receive hands-on government-relations training before filling the halls of Capitol Hill. Over two days, volunteers completed [...]
Season’s greetings to all! Our December issue of Countdown, JDRF’s leading publication, brings you an abundance of research and advocacy news, and photos from some of our most recent events from coast to coast and across the globe. You’ll read about how JDRF is making great strides in better treatments, prevention, and a cure for [...]
For more than 40 years, JDRF has been a leader in the search for an end to type 1 diabetes, through both research funding and advocacy. During that time, we have talked about a cure as a singular destination: a return to normal physiology. But today, we realize that we are engaged in a process [...]
This year marks JDRF’s seventh Children’s Congress. I find it inspiring that the very idea for Children’s Congress came from a child with type 1 diabetes. In 1999, eight-year-old Tommy Solo of Massachusetts heard his mother talking to a group of adults about going to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for more funding for type [...]
Welcome to Countdown! For all of us connected to type 1 diabetes—adults and children and their families, physicians, researchers, everyone at JDRF—we are living in exciting times! In the past eight years that I have been at JDRF, I have seen significant advances in type 1 diabetes discovery research and its clinical translation, and [...]
