Restart the pancreas. No lifetime drugs.
We are funding a clinical study at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) built around a single, audacious idea: that a diabetic pancreas can be coaxed back to work — not patched, not replaced, not medicated for the rest of someone's life. Just restored to function.
- ✓ No lifetime medications. The protocol is designed as a finite course of treatment — not a daily prescription forever.
- ✓ No insulin dependence as the endpoint. The goal is to stimulate the pancreas itself so it produces what the body needs, naturally.
- ✓ Real science, real patients, real institution. Conducted at UTMB — a major academic medical center with full IRB oversight.
- ✓ A different question entirely. The diabetes industry has spent decades managing symptoms. We are funding research that asks whether we can address the cause.
Resetting the immune system with the BCG vaccine.
Beyond our work at UTMB, we support research being conducted by the Faustman Lab using the BCG vaccine to help reset the immune system in diabetics. The research and the clinical study results have been amazing — and the implications, if the findings continue to hold, are difficult to overstate.
BCG is one of the most widely administered vaccines in medical history, with a safety profile measured in the billions of doses. The Faustman Lab's central insight is that this old, well-understood vaccine may do something extraordinary in a diabetic body: quiet the autoimmune attack that destroys insulin-producing cells in the first place, and re-train the metabolism to handle glucose the way a non-diabetic body would.
We do not fund the Faustman Lab directly — they are a major research program with their own infrastructure. We support their work by amplifying their findings, educating patients about what the science actually shows, and steering donor attention toward research that targets the disease at its root rather than maintaining people in a managed state of illness.
Funding work like the UTMB study and supporting work like the Faustman Lab's BCG research are two sides of the same conviction: that diabetes is a problem worth solving, not just a condition worth medicating.
Every dollar moves the science forward.
Most diabetes research keeps people where they are.
We're funding the work that gets them out.
If you've watched a parent, a child, or yourself live with this disease, you already know what's at stake. Your gift goes directly to the clinical research that takes the harder question seriously: not how to manage diabetes for a lifetime, but how to end it.
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