PHILADELPHIA, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- When Lee Ducat, founder of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), brought together a group of Philadelphia-area parents of children with juvenile diabetes on May 21, 1970, she could never have imagined that 40 years later that devoted group would have grown into an international organization that changed the world.

NDRI announced today it will host a groundbreaking conference with leading national and international scientists who will identify for the first time discoveries of new types of diabetes and explore promising new treatment therapies for diabetes patients.