i was fortunate that the jd rf funded research programs using the continuous glucose cgm's.oston and i in was one of the first to start on that and we spent about a year with that program. it was great. i went not realizing what was to insulinth regards reactions, as we used to call them, hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, you all are familiar with that, to now knowing ahead of time what to do and how to correct it. it also enabled me to control my diabetes better. which is very important. a new technology helped me with a situation that was really dangerous. as a result of the jdf study and other studies, the cgm's were endorsed by leading clinics throughout the country. their doctrine in society, the american diabetes association, -- american clinical american association of clinical and technologist. i do not know what they are. they are great organizations, i know, but we cannot relate to them. that almostay is agency, almost everyone, is now on board. but there is still a tragedy. medicaretragedy is will not cover these things. medicare over a period of four solid years. ha

cgm is part of that treatment. there is no doubt that we should find that. hopefully with everyone else's we can getp your that legislation passed. dr. roger, i wanted to ask you. talking about the number -- a number of promises -- promising research that is going on. i wonder if you can say what you think is the most promising immediate breakthrough that we are looking at that will make a difference? preventionhink certainly is -- >> for prevention. >> yes. i view this in terms of prevention, either preventing people who are genetically susceptible to this disease from getting it, based on what i mentioned before, the study of divine -- environmental determinants of the disease in youth is likely to answer that. and there is a study of kids from birth to the age of 15, but we already are developing important knowledge from that study. preventing people who have those genes and who have actually begun to show signs of our study is-- beginning to use certain types of drugs to actually reverse that autoimmune process and allow those cells to last longer. we kn