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24.02.2023
Investigating the accuracy and safety data behind CGM devices in the UK
John Pemberton is a Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian who also lives with type 1 diabetes. Working with leadi...
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From common type 2 diabetes drugs that have been linked with slower frailty in older people, to using genetic risk to spot type 1 diabetes earlier in adults, here are some of the diabetes research developments announced in December 2025.
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17.02.2023
Our Future Health: Get involved in research to detect and prevent heal...
You're invited to take part in the UK's largest ever health research study and help researchers find out ...
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09.02.2023
Our researchers reveal how diabetic kidney disease could be slowed
A new study investigating diabetic kidney disease has revealed how its progression could be slowed down b...
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03.02.2023
Research reveals the impact of deprivation on the health of people wit...
Research we funded has revealed people with type 1 diabetes living in socially deprived areas of Scotland...
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26.01.2023
Autoantibody testing can help to diagnose diabetes type correctly
New diabetes type research funded by us has highlighted that not everyone with diabetes is diagnosed with...
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25.01.2023
Children with type 1 diabetes do as well at school, research shows
Research from Cardiff University reveals that although children with type 1 diabetes miss more school day...
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19.01.2023
Closed-loop technology could benefit people with type 2 diabetes
New research shows that closed-loop technology, or an artificial pancreas, holds huge promise for people ...
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09.01.2023
Inside the lab: Shape-shifting cells and beta cell transplants
We invest over £6 million every year into new research, to transform the lives of people with diabetes. H...
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06.01.2023
We invested over £6 million into new diabetes research in 2022
In 2022, your donations allowed us to commit over £6.2 million to get 30 pioneering new diabetes research...
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06.01.2023
Professor Roy Taylor awarded MBE for services to diabetes research
Congratulations to Diabetes UK-funded researcher Professor Roy Taylor, who has been awarded an MBE in the...
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22.12.2022
The biggest diabetes research stories of 2022
2022 has been a big year for diabetes research, filled with historic moments and world-firsts. Here we ta...
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12.12.2022
Exploring stem cell treatments for diabetic retinopathy
Our researcher Dr Judith Lechner is exploring innovative new ways to tackle eye damage caused by diabetes...
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08.12.2022
Combining immunotherapies can slow down type 1 diabetes, research finds
Our scientists have found that combining two different immunotherapy drugs, called Abatacept and interleu...
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30.11.2022
WE’RE CALLING FOR NEW RESEARCH INTO SIGHT LOSS
We’ve partnered with Fight for Sight, the Macular Society and Moorfields Eye Charity, to co-fund new rese...
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14.11.2022
Open for recruitment: UK-first ELSA study to screen 20,000 children fo...
We’re delighted to announce that a new trial screening programme for type 1 diabetes, the ELSA study, whi...
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