About JDRF Rocky Mountain Chapter

JDRF is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children and adults suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump. Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its eventual and devastating complications which may include kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation.

A Global Leader in Type 1 Diabetes Research
JDRF funding and leadership is associated with most major scientific breakthroughs in type 1 diabetes research to date. The Foundation remains a global leader in driving type 1 diabetes science forward by funding more type 1 research than any other charity. JDRF directed nearly $107 million to such research in FY2010, bringing its total research funding to more than
$1.5 billion since its founding in 1970. To ensure that it supports science with the greatest potential to produce results as soon as possible, JDRF has established a research review process that involves leading scientists from around the world, as well as lay reviewers who either have type 1 diabetes themselves or have family members with the disease.

JDRF stretches your dollars to bring us closer to a cure:
-More than 80% of JDRF’s expenditures directly support research and research-related education.
-JDRF follows a business-world model that efficiently and effectively accelerates the pace of science leading to a cure, both by directly funding research and by creating unique partnerships with governments, academia, and industry to fill gaps in diabetes science.
-JDRF actively manages research, driving science from discovery through development and delivery to market of cures and therapeutics, with an emphasis on industry partnerships, drug discovery, and human clinical trials.

The number of children with type 1 diabetes is growing. Each year, more than 15,000 children and teenagers are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the U.S. That’s more than 40 per day. The vast majority of children diagnosed with any form of diabetes are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.