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Save the date for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Annual Research Symposium on Saturday, June 5, 2010, from 1:00-4:00pm at the St. Regis San Francisco.

The JDRF Annual Research Symposium is designed to bring together the Greater Bay Area type 1 diabetes community for an interactive, informative afternoon. The event will feature updates on JDRF research initiatives along with the opportunity to network and learn more about the latest diabetes-related products and services.

This year’s Annual Symposium will highlight JDRF’s most innovative and exciting industry partnerships including a novel diabetes drug discovery and development partnership with GNF (the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation), along with exciting updates on the Artificial Pancreas Project featuring Dr. Bruce Buckingham from Stanford University.

The content-rich afternoon will include other local corporate and university-based researchers and a product and services exposition with company representatives on hand to answer diabetes care questions.

The Annual Research Symposium is free of charge.  For more information or to reserve your space now, please contact JDRF’s Caroline Kinsey by phone, 415.597.6314 or by e-mail, ckinsey@jdrf.org.

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JDRF Partners with Animas to Develop Automated System to Better Control Diabetes Representing First Step to Artificial Pancreas

by Greg Martin01.13.2010

ShareJDRF announced today an innovative partnership with Animas Corporation to develop an automated system to help people with type 1 diabetes better control their disease – if successful, this would be the first step towards developing a fully automated artificial pancreas, which would be among the most significant advances in the treatment of type 1 [...]

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JDRF Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Trials Connection Off to a Great Start

by Greg Martin09.04.2009

ShareIn the month since JDRF Clinical Trials Connection was launched, more than 5,000 people have registered, reinforcing JDRF’s belief that people living with type 1 diabetes and their families would find such a service valuable.
To find cures, JDRF hopes people with type 1 diabetes will consider participating in trials of experimental new therapies.  The JDRF [...]

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Why Walk?

by Greg Martin08.14.2009

ShareMore than three million people are living with type 1 diabetes in the United States today.   More than 75,000 people in just the Bay Area are living with diabetes.  Did you know that 30,000 people will be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes this year?

Type 1 diabetes is a devastating disease which strikes children and adults [...]

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