Stem Cells, Diabetes, and Iacocca

Lee Iacocca is determined to find a cure for diabetes, and has put up $1,000,000 to fund promising non-embryonic stem-cell research. He's asking America to pitch in the other $10 million needed to run a clinical trial. Iacocca said, "One of the researchers we have supported for over a decade cured type 1 diabetes in mice. I’m not going to wait for the government or the pharmaceutical industry to decide to get the human trials going."

From the grant guidelines---
The foundation does not make grants for:
1. Projects not on diabetes
2. Buildings or capital improvements
3. Embryonic stem cell research
4. Hospital and university general fund drives
5. General operating costs of hospitals, research institutes, buildings, clinical care clinics, etc.

The Iacocca Foundation was founded in 1984 by Lee Iacocca in memory of his late wife, Mary K. Iacocca, who died of diabetic complications in 1983. Our primary purpose is to fund innovative and promising diabetes research programs and projects that will lead to a cure for the disease and alleviate complications caused by it.

If you want to ethically contribute to finding a cure for diabetes, this looks like the place to do it.

Thanks to Papa-Lu for this catch.