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NIDDK Issues Report on Special Funding for Type 1 Diabetes Research

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has published a report titled Special Statutory Funding Program for Type 1 Diabetes Research: Report on Progress & Opportunities. It describes the recent achievements, ongoing collaborative projects, and future opportunities in type 1 diabetes research made possible through a total of $390 million in special Federal funding for Fiscal Years* 1998 through 2003. Recent legislation extended the program and provided total funding of $750 million for Fiscal Years 2004 through 2008.

The report details progress and describes the research groups involved for each of the following goals:

• identifying the genetic and environmental causes of type 1 diabetes
  
  
• preventing or reversing type 1 diabetes
  
  
• developing cell replacement therapy
  
  
• preventing or reducing hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes
  
  
• preventing or reducing the complications of type 1 diabetes
  
  
• attracting new talent to research on type 1 diabetes

The research program was planned by a collaborative group led by NIDDK and included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, and the American Diabetes Association.

Single copies of the full report or its executive summary may be ordered free of charge by calling the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse at 1–800–860–8747. Both the full report and the executive summary can also be found at www.niddk.nih.gov/federal/planning/type1_specialfund.

*A fiscal year is October 1 to September 30.

NIH Publication No. 04–4562
May 2004