$50m pledge for diabetes

LABOR will fork out $50 million to help find a cure for type 1 diabetes if it wins the next federal election.

The money will allow the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Clinical Research Network to boost the number of clinical trials, translate research into new treatments and help find a cure.

“It will allow Australian patients with type 1 to access clinical trials,” JDRF head of research Dorota Pawlak told families in Melbourne yesterday. “It will allow for groundbreaking research conducted in the lab to be translated in a beneficial affordable treatment.”