JDRF has announced grants totaling more than $8 million in support of type 1 diabetes (T1D) experts working to advance research on the disease.

The grants include five career development awards for promising scientists early in their careers (five years); two early-career patient-oriented clinician-researcher awards (five years), two advanced postdoctoral fellowships for investigators who are transitioning from their fellowship to a faculty position (three years, with an optional one-year supplement), and fourteen postdoctoral fellowships for young scientists who are bringing  new insights and perspectives to the T1D research field (three years). Recipients represent twenty institutions in nine U.S. states as well as Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

"JDRF funds cutting-edge T1D research from exceptional investigators from all over the world," said the organization's vice president of research, Sanjoy Dutta. "This work supports all of JDRF's research priorities, from prevention to glucose control, to beta cell replacement, and will play a critical role in bringing T1D therapies to market faster. [We are] excited and proud to support such promising scientists and their research, and thus continue to fill the gap in next-generation talent."