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Congratulations Seed Funding Recipients!

The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre; a JDRF Global Centre of Excellence announces inaugural funding for researchers dedicated to type 1 diabetes.

About the centre

The Centre includes researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia’s Diabetes Research Team and the Diabetes Service at the Perth Children’s Hospital.

What is diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease that results from the immune system attacking the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Unlike type 2 diabetes which is potentially preventable, type 1 is a non-preventable disease - currently, its…

Be involved

The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre acknowledges the importance of those living with type 1 diabetes (T1D), those that care for them and the type 1 diabetes community (T1D community) in sharing your lived-experience.

Our team

The JDRF Global Centre of Excellence is being driven by two of Australia’s leading diabetes researchers and clinicians, Professors Liz Davis and Tim Jones based at The Kids Research Institute Australia and Perth Children’s Hospital.