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SPRING 2015 DiabetesPro QUARTERLY A M E R I C A N D I A B E T ES A S S O C I AT I O N N E W S FO R P R O F ES S I O N A L M E M B E R S Association Releases "Research year in Review" and Pathway to Stop Diabetes Annual Summary Report The American Diabetes Association invested nearly $30 million in diabetes research through four major grant programs in 2014, according to the recently released "Research Programs Year in Review," highlighting diabetes research efforts last year. IN THIS ISSUE Association Supports Legislation to Improve Diabetes Care 2 Diabetes Camp: Edward Perrin, MD, Discusses the Rewards of volunteering 3 75th Scientific Sessions News: Major Lectures Announced 7 Free online Continuing Education Programs Available 9 The inaugural year-in-review report, released in conjunction with the Association's Pathway to Stop Diabetes 2014 Annual Summary, noted that critical funding for the research necessary to improve health outcomes is shrinking relative to the increasing burden of diabetes in America. The National Institutes of Health spends an estimated $34.60 per person affected by diabetes on research, a level "grossly inadequate for the scope of the problem," wrote Tamara Darsow, PhD, the Association's Vice President, Research Programs in the report's introductory message. Limited diabetes research funding "threatens the research progress already made to reduce complications and improve quality of life for people with diabetes," Darsow wrote, and the Association's commitment to research is "needed now more than ever." "More than one-third of the U.S. population has diabetes or prediabetes, a trend that has been ongoing over the past two decades," said Sam Dagogo-Jack, MD, President, Medicine and Science for the Association. "The Association's Research Programs play a critical role in supporting diabetes researchers early in their careers and projects that are early in development. These investments ensure a promising pipeline of people and ideas for future breakthroughs in diabetes care, but a frontal assault on the epidemics of diabetes and prediabetes requires a substantial increase in funding for diabetes research from all sources. Only through fundamental and applied research can we hope to prevent and cure diabetes and improve the lives of all persons affected by diabetes." In 2014, the Association funded 376 new and continuing research projects through four major grant programs: its Core Research, Pathway to Stop Diabetes, Research CoSupport, and Collaborative Targeted Research programs. Grants awarded through these programs supported 364 investigators at 143 leading academic research institutions. With help from philanthropic and corporate supporters, the Association works to launch the careers of those interested in diabetes research, recognizing that scientists have difficulty competing for limited federal funding. "We know that without a strong, promising pipeline of researchers to make tomorrow's diabetes research advances, we will never meet our goal to Stop Diabetes," the 2014 "Year in Review" states, noting that continued on page 2 PRoFESSIoNAL.DIABETES.oRG http://PRoFESSIoNAL.DIABETES.oRG

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