The JDRF is committed to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications. We are making extraordinary progress.

JDRF has set six aggressive and challenging goals to accelerate the pace of research over the next five years:

• Perfect islet transplantation - without chronic immune-suppression - to permanently restore normal blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes.
  
  
• Create safe, stable and widely available "universal donor" sources of insulin-producing islets for transplantation.
  
  
• Regenerate the body's own beta cells without islet transplantation.
  
  
• Perfect an artificial pancreas.
  
  
• Predict, prevent and reverse complications.
  
  
• Prevent type 1 diabetes by maintaining or restoring immune tolerance in newly diagnosed patients.

Together we have made great progress. But there is still to much to be done. Every day, five more Australians, most of them children, are diagnosed with this life-changing autoimmune disease.

Your donations will be devoted to Australia's best and most promising diabetes research - to preventing or treating the complications that arise from diabetes (which will help both people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes) and to finding the cure.

JDRF research has already led to significant breakthroughs in the treatment of kidney disease and the reversal of complications. We have also seen advances in the prevention of type 1 diabetes; advances that we are hopeful will lead to a vaccine to protect children at risk of developing type 1 diabetes.

We need your support now.
Our vision for a diabetes-free world is closer than ever.