A nonprofit built for scientific acceleration.
KiCares Research Institute exists to accelerate scientific discovery and improve lives — by funding, supporting, and advancing innovative diabetes research, education, early detection, and breakthrough technologies.
Founded on the belief that collaboration accelerates cures.
KiCares Research Institute was created to address an urgent gap in diabetes research: the need for greater collaboration, faster funding, and stronger bridges between the scientists making discoveries and the patients waiting for solutions.
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funding engine — raising philanthropic capital and grants, then deploying them into academic institutions, medical centers, biotech innovators, and patient education programs. We don't run labs; we make the labs that matter possible.
Every program we support is rooted in scientific rigor and measured in patient impact. We believe that with the right partners, the right investments, and the right urgency, the next generation of diabetes care can be defined in our lifetime.
Diabetes is a global health crisis — and a solvable one.
The scale of diabetes is staggering, but it is not immutable. Decades of research have already transformed care, and the science needed to transform it again is within reach. What's missing is the funding and the coordination to get it there faster.
Americans live with diabetes today, with prevalence rising across every region and demographic.
U.S. adults have prediabetes — the majority are unaware they are at risk.
Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, cardiovascular disease, and amputations.
Cures currently exist for Type 1 diabetes — only collaborative research will change that.
Accelerate discovery. Improve lives.
KiCares Research Institute exists to accelerate scientific discovery and improve lives by funding, supporting, and advancing innovative diabetes research, education, early detection initiatives, and breakthrough technologies that move us closer to a world without diabetes.
"We exist to make sure no scientist with a breakthrough idea — and no patient hoping for one — has to wait."
A world without diabetes.
A future where diabetes is prevented, detected earlier, managed more effectively, and ultimately cured through collaborative scientific innovation — so that families everywhere are spared the burden, the complications, and the loss this disease causes today.
Getting there requires sustained investment in research, durable partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem, and the philanthropic will to keep going until the work is done.
The principles guiding every decision.
Innovation
We back bold ideas and breakthrough science.
Collaboration
We bring partners together to multiply impact.
Integrity
Transparent, accountable stewardship of every gift.
Scientific Excellence
Rigorous standards in every project we fund.
Compassion
Patients and families guide everything we do.
Impact
We measure success in lives changed and outcomes improved.