The aim of the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance is to see a Practical Cure for type 1 diabetes become widely available in the next 15 years.
We are the only organization that is 100% focused on this mission.
A Practical Cure is any solution that would revolutionize the quality of life for those living with type 1 diabetes today.
The JDCA advocates making the pursuit of a Practical Cure the top priority—more resources, more manpower, and more dollars toward this research.
Only if a Practical Cure is job #1 is there any real chance of it becoming available in the next 15 years.
Our Origins
JDCA was founded in 2011 by Brian G. Kelly, co-founder and former chairman of the board of Activision/Blizzard.
Kelly joined the T1D community in 2006 after his son Tommy was diagnosed at the age of 2. Like so many other parents whose life is turned upside down by T1D, Brian spent the next several years learning everything he could about how to make things better for Tommy and the millions of other kids living with T1D.
One key question Kelly wanted to understand was why, after 30 years of effort and over $500 million donated each year for T1D, had there been so little game-changing progress toward a cure.
Kelly reached a strong conclusion that unless there is a paradigm shift to increase accountability, focus, and transparency of information to donors from the major diabetes charities they support, there would not be a Practical Cure in our lifetimes.
The JDCA was formed to advocate for this vision of change.
