# Steve Morgan Foundation makes £1 million pledge for type 1 diabetes research - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/12/24/steve-morgan-foundation-makes-1m-pledge-for-type-1-diabetes-research/ - Published: 2019-12-24T09:30:27+00:00 - Author: Melanie May **The Steve Morgan Foundation marked November’s Diabetes Awareness Month by making a further charitable pledge of £1million to support type 1 diabetes research. ** Businessman and philanthropist Steve Morgan, and his wife Sally who is a trustee of the Foundation, have had their family life impacted by type 1 diabetes since 2017 when Sally’s son, Hugo, was diagnosed with the condition at the age of seven. The [Steve Morgan Foundation](https://stevemorganfoundation.org.uk) had already, in 2018, pledged £3m to [JDRF](https://jdrf.org.uk)’s mission to cure the condition. ## Advertisement The £1million pledge will help fund JDRF’s research programme, which includes immunotherapy studies. These aim to reset the misfiring immune system response seen in type 1 diabetes. The research programme also includes ‘smart’ insulin research – which could one day allow people with type 1 diabetes to have just one injection a week, instead of several a day. The pledge will also enable JDRF to accelerate vital clinical trials and ensures research can be boosted in an attempt to cure type 1 diabetes, and to enhance current technologies, helping to make them available on the NHS. Karen Addington, Chief Executive of JDRF in the UK, said: > “JDRF identifies the most promising research opportunities internationally, and > collaborates with world-leading researchers here in the UK, to deliver those breakthroughs > needed. The support of Steve, Sally and the Steve Morgan Foundation will help > us push the boundaries of medical science, to move closer to the type 1 diabetes > cure.” Steve Morgan commented: > “Type 1 diabetes is indiscriminate, it can hit anyone and is life changing, not > only for the person diagnosed but for the whole family. Through our Foundation > Sally and I are delighted to be major supporters of JDRF in their research programme > to find a cure. We’re determined to beat this thing for Hugo and all the other > Hugo’s in the world.”   Image: Steve and Sally Morgan in JDRF funded lab. ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)