Diabetes clinical research is conducted at institutions, research labs, and universities all around the world. Because Diabetes is such a complex disease, most organizations will choose either Type 1 or Type 2 to devote its research. One particular organization, the Diabetes Clinical Research Program at Benaroya Research Institute focuses on Type 1 Diabetes research. They maintain TrialNet, which is a Diabetes network consisting of eighteen clinical sites located around the world and their goal is to ease the burden of families who have a child diagnosed with Diabetes.

They achieve this objective through disease prevention, early detection and screening, and new therapies.After a child is admitted to the program, they also screen the patient’s family members as well. They have tested over 200,000 family members. Since prevention and early detection are important, they hope to minimize some issues for the family by detecting the risk and dealing with it head …