World Diabetes Day 2021
This year marks 100 years since the discovery of a treatment that has saved millions of lives around the world – insulin.
For World Diabetes Day 2021, we're celebrating this incredible breakthrough and the century of life-changing diabetes discoveries it inspired.
Join us as we tell the extraordinary story of diabetes research, from #LabToLife.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to meet the researchers behind the breakthroughs, and people living with diabetes whose lives they’ve changed.


100 Years of insulin

Our research story

Nailing Diabetes
There are lots of different ways you can get involved for World Diabetes Day. Visit our Online Shop for lots of free resources, from posters to creative kits for kids, or download our guide below for more ideas.