Juvenile diabetes research foundation artificial pancreas consortium update.

A mechanical means to restore euglycemica in diabetes has long been considered achievable, yet a portable and widely adopted artificial pancreas system has not been realized.1,2 The Artificial Pancreas Consortium was established in 2006 as part of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) Artificial Pancreas Project, a multimillion dollar, multiyear initiative with a mission to accelerate the development of systems for automated control of blood glucose in patients with diabetes. Consortium investigators seek to research and develop strategies, which can be commercialized, that will confer the long-term benefits of improved glycemic control by combining novel automated control algorithms and hormone therapies with continuous glucose monitors and pump devices.