Breakthrough T1D is a global funding agency with a substantial proportion of its grants awarded outside the United States. We encourage all qualified researchers interested in addressing the scientific and clinical challenges and gaps to cure type 1 diabetes and its complications to apply for funding. Decisions on funding are based on the quality, mission relevance, and priority of the proposed research.

Breakthrough T1D encourages submission of innovative, high-risk/high-reward, field-changing research proposals to accelerate its mission. Breakthrough T1D has multiple funding mechanisms, including Strategic Research Agreements, Innovative Grants, and Industry Grants to build a diverse research portfolio, to provide the research community with alternative approaches to address the foundation's mission, and to provide research training opportunities to attract new talent to the field.

Ongoing Opportunities

Strategic Research Agreements (Single Project, Multi-Project, and Clinical)

• Applicant Eligibility Requirements: MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and faculty position or equivalent.

• Maximum Budget Per Year (USD): As Approved.

• Duration (Years): As Approved.

• Letter of Intent (LOI) Required?: Yes.

Innovative Grants

• Applicant Eligibility Requirements: MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and faculty position or equivalent.

• Maximum Budget Per Year (USD): $200,000.

• Duration (Years): 1.

• Letter of Intent (LOI) Required?: No.

Training Opportunities

Note: Breakthrough T1D is unable to consider applications related to diabetes-related complications during the current fiscal year. For inquiries, contact the Preaward Support inbox.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Applicant Eligibility Requirements: MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and must not be simultaneously serving an internship or residency.

• Maximum Budget Per Year (USD): Based on number of years' experience.

• Duration (Years): 3.

• Letter of Intent (LOI) Required?: No.

Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Applicant Eligibility Requirements: MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and must not be simultaneously serving an internship or residency.

• Maximum Budget Per Year (USD): $95,000.

• Duration (Years): 3.

• Letter of Intent (LOI) Required?: No.

Career Development Awards

• Applicant Eligibility Requirements: MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and faculty position or equivalent.

• Maximum Budget Per Year (USD): $200,000.

• Duration (Years): 5.

• Letter of Intent (LOI) Required?: No.

Kellogg Family Early-Career Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Awards

• Applicant Eligibility Requirements: MD or MD-PhD, hold an appointment or joint appointment in a subspecialty of clinical medicine, and conduct human clinical research.

• Maximum Budget Per Year (USD): $200,000.

• Duration (Years): 5.

• Letter of Intent (LOI) Required?: No.

Other Opportunities

Conference Grants

• Applicant Eligibility Requirements: See Grant type description for eligibility criterion.

• Maximum Budget Per Year (USD): As Approved.

• Duration (Years): n/a.

• Letter of Intent (LOI) Required?: Yes.

Eligibility

Applicants must hold an MD, DMD, DVM, PhD, or equivalent and have a faculty position or equivalent at a college, university, medical school, company, or other research facility. Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign non-profit organizations, public and private, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local governments, and eligible agencies of the federal government. Ordinarily, for-profit organizations will not be considered, except under special circumstances. See the Industry Discovery & Development Partnerships section for a description of special programs for for-profit entities. There are no citizenship requirements. To assure continued excellence and diversity among applicants and awardees, Breakthrough T1D welcomes applications from all qualified individuals and encourages applications from persons with disabilities, women, and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences.

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