Welcome to the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance
The JDCA is a unique and self-funded nonprofit that aims to educate and empower donors and prompt transparency in the charitable organizations that raise money to support research. We are an independent analyst of the type 1 diabetes charitable universe and bring a business-like perspective to focus research toward a Practical Cure. We want to unify voices in an effort to accelerate a cure for established diabetics.
Our Mission: The JDCA’s mission is to direct donor contributions to the charitable organizations that most effectively fund research with the goal of delivering a type 1 Practical Cure by 2025.
Our latest report, “Is Type 1 Cure Research Funding Focused Enough?”, looks at the total number of projects funded by all of the major diabetes nonprofits and the size of the grants awarded.
There are a surprisingly large number of projects currently underway. The approach by the main charitable organizations has been to fund many projects, rather than focusing in on a few. The JDCA believes that a “narrow and deep” approach will present more promising cure opportunities.
New Video!
Did you know that diseases that have an effective prevention method, such as polio, smallpox, measles, mumps, HPV, Hepatitis A and others, do not have a cure for people who already have the disease?
To illustrate the discussion presented in our report, “Prevention Does Not Lead To a Cure” we have created a short video that addresses the misconceptions surrounding prevention research and its contribution to cure research.
The JDCA believes that curing type 1 is difficult enough without hoping for this result as an ancillary outcome of prevention research or other efforts that do not specifically target a cure.
Read the entire report for our complete analysis.
Read our blog at JDCA2025
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