Diabetes is a taxing, chronic condition that can have serious impacts on quality of life and longevity. We want to help people with diabetes live longer, healthier lives — and advancing groundbreaking research is the key.
Clinical research accelerates discoveries and speeds the development of new therapies. Through clinical trials, patients can also be part of the latest innovations.
Increased access to care and better treatments are urgently needed to ensure everyone with diabetes can live long, healthy lives, and to prevent more people from developing diabetes. Will you join us?
Yes! I want to help find cures and better treatments for people with diabetes.
Give todayThrough your caring support of the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute (UWMDI), you can help us:
Provide comprehensive care that treats the whole person
People with diabetes need care that treats the whole person, including social work, nutrition and mental health. Your generosity supports the UWMDI’s multidisciplinary programs and comprehensive care that improves quality of life.
Fast-track critical research that can improve outcomes
Often, funding is only available for low-risk, incremental research. Your gift advances high-risk, high-reward research, helping us fast-track the discoveries that lead to better treatments for diabetes and associated disorders.
Help adolescents with diabetes live long, healthy lives
Our unique adolescent and young adult program helps teens and young adults with diabetes make the transition to adult care. Through education and support in areas such as navigating health insurance, living independently and managing mental health, your generosity can help us prepare young adults to successfully manage diabetes.
Improve healthcare equity and access to care
Programs like the UWMDI Latinx Clinic and the Diabetes Population Health Initiative improve healthcare equity and offer culturally responsive and representative care to communities that experience barriers to accessing care. Your support can help us reach even more people across our region.
With a multidisciplinary diabetes care center and a state-of the-art laboratory space under one roof — the first facility of its kind in the Pacific Northwest — the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute is a recognized leader in diabetes research, care and training.
At our clinic in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, we provide comprehensive care, informed by our research, for patients with diabetes, including glycemic management, nutrition, cardiology, mental health and kidney care.
Our world-class research team focuses on identifying new treatments for diabetes and its complications, advancing our understanding of diabetes prevention and treatment, and giving our patients access to innovative clinical trials.
We are working to build a more diverse and equitable work force of researchers and care providers from underrepresented communities. Initiatives like the Stipends for Training Aspiring Researchers (STAR) program and the UWMDI Latinx Clinic create more opportunities for both increasing diversity and providing culturally responsive care.
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Your compassionate support helps advance the innovative research that can lead to better treatments and even cures for people with diabetes. Will you help us transform the future of diabetes care?
To support the mission of the UW Diabetes Adolescent Transition Clinic in the Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition.
Give Today >To support the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute’s clinical research program.
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