The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is awarding this year’s prestigious Pathway to Stop Diabetes grants, totaling $3.25 million dollars, to two promising researchers. Both will receive $1.625 million dollars over a five-year grant term to support breakthroughs in basic science, clinical science, technology, care and potential cures in the field of diabetes. Judith Agudo, PhD , Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, receives a Pathway Accelerator Award for her research project titled “Harnessing immune privilege mechanisms from stem cells to protect beta-cells from immune