On January 13th, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announced a non-exclusive partnership with Animas Corporation to develop an automated, partially closed-loop system to help control blood sugars — the first step toward a fully automated “artificial pancreas.” For anyone with Type 1 diabetes this was, of course,...

Dr. Mark Petrash is Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute at the University of Colorado Denver and  is a leader in the field of aldose reductase research.  Never heard of aldose reductase?   Here’s a primer:  Aldose reductase is the enzyme that converts...

George S. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, is currently the Executive Director of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes and Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Immunology at the University of Colorado Denver. He was the past president (2006) of the Clinical Immunology Society. His major area of research is the prediction and prevention...

Below you’ll find an essay I wrote last year for the Financial Times.  I wrote the piece about my husband’s type 1 diabetes diagnosis, the way he took it in stride, and the way I did not.  I wanted to cure him, and I still do.  Since the publication of the essay, I too have been diagnosed with type 1.  I know it’s an unusual...

When you truly know a person, you know how he thinks and you can predict his actions.  When you truly know yourself, you understand the ebbs and flows of your moods and passions.  But a disease like diabetes throws a wrench in this.  Your body begins to do things that are alien.  You don’t feel like yourself. We researchers and...