JDRF Centers of Excellence

Across the country and around the world, leading scientists are working to solve the many parts of the type 1 diabetes (T1D) puzzle to deliver cures and life-improving breakthroughs. JDRF helps fund their work, connects their research and propels advances forward with the aim of getting solutions to market as quickly as possible. In some places, the research underway is so deep and so rich that it warrants special focus. It is in these areas that we are launching JDRF Centers of Excellence.

These Centers represent a new research model aimed at accelerating science in Curing T1D and Improving Lives. We have launched one Center, with more to come.

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Distinctive, Dynamic and Designed to Accelerate

  • Selected for Specialized Excellence

    Each JDRF Center builds on an established depth of T1D excellence that has been sharpened and expanded by world-class leaders focusing on key areas of research such as immunology, stem cell biology, gene editing and complications.

    JDRF will link the Centers to each other and to ongoing research around the world to ensure maximum collaboration.

  • Designed for Speed

    The JDRF Centers are designed to foster highly dynamic, nimble work that will drive discovery with maximum speed. By providing researchers with long-term funding, we are removing the red tape, restrictions and reporting that accompany standard research grants. This allows scientists to focus on research, and gives them the freedom to quickly change paths to pursue an alternate, promising direction without worrying about lost funding or filing new applications.

  • Leveraging Resources and Collaborations Toward Advances

    These Centers will bring together experts from diverse fields and multiple institutions, as well as recruit new talents, to accelerate T1D advances. These Centers will create a new fundraising model helping to maximize resources and link research efforts.

JDRF Centers of Excellence

Northern California

The JDRF Center of Excellence in Northern California is a collaboration between diabetes researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford University School of Medicine.

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University of Michigan

The JDRF Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan partners with the Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute at the institution to pursue T1D cures and reduce disease burden through improved treatments.

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More Locations to Come

Each JDRF Center of Excellence focuses on achieving multiple and interlinked goals to address urgent unmet needs in T1D research.

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Gillian Green
Vice President, Leadership Giving
JDRF
ggreen@jdrf.org