The Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) is an international center dedicated exclusively to the cure and treatment of diabetes. The result of parents of children with diabetes who banded together more than twenty-five years ago to focus scientific attention on this disease, the DRI today stands as a world leader in innovative cure-related research.

An academic center of excellence at the University of Miami School of Medicine, the DRI's commitment to improving the lives of children has resulted in landmark advances in several areas of diabetes research and patient care, including gestational diabetes, transplant immunology, and islet cell isolation and transplantation.

For millions of families already living with the disease, the DRI is their best hope for a cure. Both patients and scientists who visit the center and see the work that goes on in its laboratories, quickly come to understand the unique opportunity the DRI represents in the race for a cure. By making scientific research understandable, this site - DRInet - helps extend that hope to all families.