Andrea, with Mother's Day just around the corner, I wanted to tell you about a very special researcher the American Diabetes Association is proud to support.
Dr. Sumita Pennathur is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of California Santa Barbara. She builds engines, and chips, and devices all smaller than a human hair. Her life is microscopes, and
cleanrooms, and electrodes, and math that would make your head spin.
This all changed when Dr. Sumita Pennathur's 4-year-old daughter Zofia was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. "
I switched all my research to find something that could help her. It changed the course of my career.
" Dr. Pennathur is now using her expertise in all things tiny to build a small, painless, disposable CGM patch that could replace the larger, expensive glucose monitors that are currently available.
" It's never been done before, but by my calculations it can work,
" she says. This groundbreaking project has the potential to help Zofia and thousands of other kids just like her.
It is because of you and your generosity that Dr. Pennathur's work and the work of hundreds of other researchers on the cusp of finding the next breakthrough is possible. Andrea, can we count on you to help fund the next big diabetes breakthrough?
Please donate to support diabetes research.
As part of our Research Fundraising Campaign to raise $10 million in research funding, donations to this gift campaign will be 100% restricted to ADA-funded diabetes research.
Today, Zofia is a precocious 7-year-old, an avid reader,
and a self-described fashionista.
" Zofia obviously doesn't want to have diabetes," says Dr. Pennathur. "
She doesn't want to think about it all the time, she doesn't want people to talk about it all the time, and she doesn't want her mom to work on it all the time." It makes the time away from her daughter even harder for Dr. Pennathur.
" Sometimes it's so tough. But recently she brought home a school assignment that said ' My mom is a hero for people with Type 1 diabetes,' and it makes it all worth it.
" Every year, we receive hundreds of promising research proposals from scientists who are looking for ways to improve lives of people with diabetes. But we can only afford to fund a fraction of them, leaving potentially game-changing discoveries unexplored. In science, we never know where the next discovery will uncover. That's why it's critical that we support the exploration of as many ideas as possible.
Donate to support diabetes research today.
Your contribution will support researchers like Dr. Pennathur who are working tirelessly towards a future free of diabetes and all its burdens.
This Mother's Day, help us honor all the moms out there fighting for their children, family and friends affected by diabetes. 
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