Top Research Highlights - Spring 2012

Learn more about our research progress by from our most recent issue of Top Research Highlights. In the issue, you will read about:

• Exciting news from JDRF-funded research at Oregon Health & Science University and Legacy Health, where researchers have developed a stable liquid formulation of glucagon, a key component in the development of bihormonal diabetes pumps and next-generation artificial pancreas systems
• Positive results from two JDRF-funded outpatient clinical trials of artificial pancreas systems
• Insight from the Joslin Diabetes Center’s 50-Year Medalist Study into the low incidence of severe diabetic retinopathy in Medalists
• Successful results from JDRF-funded research in Canada in which a two-drug combination extended the functioning of pancreatic islet transplants in patients, restoring insulin independence to some transplant recipients
• Breaking news about a $4.6 million grant from JDRF and The Helmsley Charitable Trust to the Diabetes Research Institute to fund research in beta cell encapsulation
• The recent approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of Lucentis as a treatment for diabetic macular edema

Click here to download the JDRF’s Top Research Highlights in pdf format.