JDRF Greater Northwest

Mission

JDRF's goal is to progressively remove the impact of type one diabetes (T1D) from people's lives until we achieve a world without it. JDRF collaborates with a wide spectrum of partners and is the only organization with the scientific resources, policy influence, and a working plan to better treat, prevent, and eventually cure T1D.

Description

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which a person's pancreas stops producing insulin, a hormone that enables the individual to get energy from food.  There is nothing you can do to prevent T1D and currently there is no cure. Our plan ensures that there will be an on-going stream of life-changing therapies moving from development through to commercialization that lessen the impact of T1D.  We want to keep people with T1D healthy and safe today until we reach our ultimate goal of a cure and universal prevention of T1D.