JDRF Research Summit

From the D-Notebook: JDRF Research Summit in Nation’s Capitol

By AmyT on March 22, 2013

The JDRF Capitol Chapter’s 3rd annual Research Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 9 brought out leaders from the Diabetes Community to talk about everything from the latest in research and technological advances to psychosocial issues for kids and adults with diabetes.
More than 600 people attended this year. Among them was one of our good friends, longtime type 1 and fellow D-blogger Scott Strumello, on the scene along with several other familiar faces from…

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Behind the Scenes of the Artificial Pancreas Human Trials

By AllisonN on February 1, 2011

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the JDRF Capitol Chapter’s first annual Research Summit in Bethesda, MD. The summit had a very impressive line-up, including Dan Hurley, author of the book Diabetes Rising, and Dr. Aaron Kowalski, JDRF’s Vice President of Treatment Therapies.
I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Edward Damiano, a researcher at Boston University who’s currently steeped in multi-day human trials for the control algorithm on the artificial…

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