NIDDK 75th Anniversary Collection

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. During this period, it has contributed to innumerable discoveries that have improved the health of millions of Americans, especially those with diabetes. This special collection comprises articles in Diabetes Care and Diabetes that highlight, recognize, and allow us to celebrate some of the accomplishments that exemplify the role NIDDK has played over the past three-quarters of a century for the benefit of the public’s health. The publications represent a collaboration with NIDDK leadership to focus on specific trials and programs of particular import initiated by NIDDK that have served as the underpinning of an informed, potent response to the epidemic of diabetes in the U.S. and worldwide. In Diabetes Care, five reviews focus on the achievements of investigators whose collaborative clinical research studies have advanced our understanding of the pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of diabetes in youth and adults. In Diabetes, the highlighted contributions focus on five research consortia that brought together investigators from across the country to focus on critical diabetes topics and technologies. We celebrate the NIDDK, whose work has paid off manyfold in improved care for people with diabetes, development of new therapies and diagnostic tools, and strategies for diabetes prevention. Further, we hope that our two journals continue to be major vehicles for the propagation of the achievements of NIDDK and its funded investigators as we eagerly anticipate many more anniversaries.

David A. D’Alessio, MD
Editor, Diabetes

Steven E. Kahn, MB, ChB
Editor, Diabetes Care