Information for Applicants

Updates & Announcements:

JDRF and the Danish Diabetes Academy (DDA) are pleased to announce that they are partnering on all JDRF RFAs in FY2015 (July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015; jdrf.org/grant-center/information-for-applicants/research-priority-areas/#Planned-RFAs). The DDA will nominate reviewers to committees that will evaluate applications in response to these RFAs. Funded investigators will acknowledge support from the DDA and JDRF in publications and presentations.

JDRF Research Funding Opportunities are open to all investigators. JDRF and DDA encourage all qualified researchers interested in solving the clinical and scientific problems associated with type 1 diabetes to apply for funding. DDA investigators and their collaborators are encouraged to respond to JDRF RFAs.

Welcome to JDRF’s Information for Applicants.

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As the leading charitable funder of diabetes research worldwide, JDRF offers a wide variety of grants and fellowships to qualified researchers.

JDRF is committed to spending approximately $111 million in FY2013 to support research relevant to our mission of finding a cure for diabetes and its complications.

Please review the JDRF FY2014 Research Priority Areas.

We encourage all qualified researchers interested in solving the clinical and scientific problems associated with type 1 diabetes to apply for funding and become a part of our winning team.

JDRF is strongly committed to conducting extensive internal and external peer review prior to funding any research project. Peer review is indispensable to operating the world’s largest and most highly regarded public T1D research program. JDRF wishes to thank all the external reviewers who helped JDRF evaluate research proposals during FY2014.

Please click here for the list of JDRF active grants funded from our FY2014 Requests for Applications (RFAs) or Innovative and Training reviews.