From one, to five, to more? The smart insulin story so far

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JDRF’s smart insulin story began around the same time as I joined JDRF, in 2008. Not long after joining the team, I heard about a company called SmartCells, Inc., that we were helping to develop a type of insulin that would only be active when glucose levels rose and would stop working as soon as those levels fell again. The simplicity of this idea grabbed me right away. I was delighted when the data showing that this crazy new idea for insulin looked promising enough for pharmaceutical giant Merck to buy up SmartCells, Inc. in 2010 enabling them to lend their formidable drug development expertise to the project. It’s a great story to illustrate how far JDRF’s money can go by investing in promising new ideas, so it’s a story I never get tired of telling!

But did you know JDRF has five smart insulin projects in active funding right now?

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