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Diabetes Research Grant

Over 500 million people are living with diabetes worldwide. And the number keeps climbing. The research to change that deserves better tools and support. That’s why we’re here.

Garmin Health and Labfront are opening applications for the Diabetes Research Grant, awarding five projects across the Americas and EMEA. Each selected team receives five Garmin vívoactive 5 devices and full access to the Labfront research platform for one year with 20 participants included. No bureaucratic red tape. Just tools, data, and the support to do serious work.

Why the Garmin vívoactive 5 for diabetes research?

The vívoactive 5 is more than a smartwatch. With Labfront, it becomes a full physiological sensor suite that runs 24/7. Sleep actigraphy. Enhanced BBI. Stress scores. Activity and recovery patterns. These aren’t vanity metrics. They’re exactly the kinds of continuous, passive signals that tell a story about someone’s health long before a clinical threshold is crossed.

Type 2 diabetes develops slowly, quietly, across months and years of disrupted sleep, elevated stress, and reduced metabolic resilience. The vívoactive 5 helps capture all of that in the real world.*

Why Labfront for wearable health research?

Raw wearable data is messy. Anyone who’s worked with it knows this. Labfront is the engine that makes that data actually usable. Your data is structured, synchronized, and ready for analysis without the usual preprocessing headaches. If you’ve ever spent more time wrangling data than analyzing it, you’ll understand why this matters.

Together, the vívoactive 5 and Labfront give researchers a complete, deployable wearable research stack. You focus on the science. We handle the infrastructure.

What research projects are we looking for?

We want projects that use wearable data to get ahead of diabetes, not just document it. That might look like identifying early physiological signatures of insulin resistance. It might be a behavioral intervention study that uses real-time feedback to shift risk trajectories. It might be something we haven’t thought of yet.

If you’re working on something that uses continuous data to prevent or smarter manage Type 2 diabetes, we want to hear from you. Researchers, clinicians, and students across the Americas and EMEA are all eligible to apply. This grant was built to be accessible, not just for well-funded labs with existing infrastructure.

We ran a similar grant focused on women's health, and the quality of research that came out of it reminded us why this model works. Good researchers with the right tools do good work. It's that simple.

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Apply before April 3

Applications are open now and close April 3. Four weeks. If you’ve been sitting on a research idea waiting for the right resources, this is your window.

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_{*Garmin devices are consumer grade devices and are not designed or intended to monitor or diagnose diseases or any medical conditions. Find information on https://www.garmin.com/legal/atdisclaimer}

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