S.C.R. No. 5 Summary

• Urges United States Congress to increase federal funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and development of advanced medical technology for type 1 diabetes treatment.

• Identifies over one million Americans diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which causes life-threatening complications including blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease, and death.

• Highlights that type 1 diabetes costs billions of dollars annually in medical expenses and lost productivity.

• Calls for increased NIH funding specifically for closed-loop insulin delivery systems (artificial pancreas) and islet cell transplantation therapy research.

• Directs the Ohio Senate Clerk to transmit copies of the resolution to U.S. Senate and House leadership, the Ohio Congressional delegation, and Ohio news media.