New to diabetes? You are not alone- We can help
It is our hope that we will raise more than $5 million for diabetes research. Help us get there – send in outstanding contributions today, or donate to a Walker online.
Thank you for your support of the Ron Santo Walk to Cure Diabetes.
 JDRF Illinois is thrilled to announce that this year's Best of Illinois Dinner raised $1 million in honor of
Click here for more information on this exciting event.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Ford Project S.N.A.P program! More than 1,000 drawings by JDRF participants created two beautiful mosaic pieces sponsored by Ford and Project S.N.A.P. Both mosaic murals were auctioned off at the Chance of a Lifetime Gala on December 12 and helped raise even more research dollars. You can also order your own poster of a mural! Click here for more details: projectsnap.org/jdrfposters
 
Please visit our Artificial Pancreas Project page for more information.
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Lilly Jaffe, a North Shore suburban girl who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was just one month old, is now insulin independent. “She is so proud,” said her mother, Laurie Jaffe, “So happy and excited. For the first time in her life, she can be like her friends and her brother and sister.”
Read more about Lilly’s amazing story.
More information about monogenic diabetes
The buzz around the promise of an artificial pancreas is truly deserving. “Perfecting a closed loop artificial pancreas” is one of JDRF’s five cure therapeutic goals in the next five years. JDRF has launched “The Artificial Pancreas Project,” a new initiative to help accelerate the availability of this technology to people with type 1 diabetes.
For basic information about Artificial Pancreas Project, download this PDF.
For further information on the Artificial Pancreas Project, please visit http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=106675.
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