Calls from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has a number of upcoming deadlines for its funding opportunities. Request for Applications include Beta Cell Therapies, Prevention Therapies, Complications Therapies, Glucose Control and Transportfolio. Fundings levels differ. However, for some of the programmes a budget can be requested up to $ 1,500,000 per year for up to 3 years of funding.

These are all the upcoming deadlines:

• JDRF Encapsulation Consortium: Developing and Testing Novel Encapsulation Technologies: Application deadline: August 1, 2014;
• Targeting Islet Cell Plasticity for regeneration of beta cell function in T1D: Letter of Intent July 17, 2014;
• Identifying and Prioritizing Drug Targets and Combination Therapies to Simultaneously Optimize Regenerative and Survival Responses in the Beta Cell: Letter of Intent July 17, 2014;
• Clinical Trials to Preserve Beta Cell Function and Delay Onset of Symptomatic Disease in the At-risk Setting for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D): Letter of Intent July 11, 2014;
• JDRF International TrialNet Clinical Centers: Letter of Intent July 1, 2014;
• Diabetic Retinopathy Biomarker Discovery and Validation: Letter of Intent June 20, 2014;
• Exploratory Clinical Trials for Diabetic Retinopathy: Letter of Intent June 20, 2014;
• Diabetic Nephropathy Biomarker Discovery and Validation Using Type 1 Diabetes Cohorts: Letter of Intent July 14, 2014;
• Exploratory Clinical Trials of Non-insulin Adjunct Therapies in Type 1 Diabetes RFA: Letter of Intent July 11, 2014;
• Glucose Responsive Insulin Discovery and Validation RFA: Letter of Intent July 11, 2014;
• Combination Therapies in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D): Letter of Intent June 20, 2014;
• Innovative Grants: Application deadline: July 31, 2014;
• Postdoctoral Fellowship: Application deadline: July 31, 2014;
• Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship: Application deadline: July 31, 2014;
• Career Development Awards: Application deadline: July 31, 2014;
• Early Career Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Awards: Application deadline: July 31, 2014;
• Strategic Research Agreements: Application Deadlines: August 15, 2014, November 10, 2014 and February 3, 2015;
• Conference Grants: submit applications 3-6 months prior to meeting date.

For further information on these programmes of JDRF check the RFAs and closing dates.

JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. JDRF’s goal is to progressively remove the impact of T1D from people’s lives until a world without T1D is achieved.