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Diabetes Research Grant

Over 500 million people are living with diabetes worldwide. The number keeps climbing. The research to change that deserves better tools and real support.

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 continuous physiological sensor suite running 24/7: sleep actigraphy, enhanced BBI, stress scores, and activity and recovery patterns. These aren't vanity metrics. They're exactly the kinds of passive, real-world signals that tell you something meaningful about a person'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 captures all of that outside the lab.*

Why Labfront for wearable health research?

Raw wearable data is messy. Anyone who's worked with it knows this. Labfront structures, synchronizes, and prepares your data for analysis without the usual preprocessing headaches. If you've ever spent more time wrangling data than interpreting it, you'll understand why that 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 are we looking for?

Projects that use wearable data to get ahead of diabetes, not just document it. That might mean identifying early physiological signatures of insulin resistance, or running 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 using continuous data to prevent or more precisely manage Type 2 diabetes, we want to hear from you. Researchers, clinicians, and students across the Americas and EMEA are all eligible. 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 it produced reminded us why this model works. Good researchers with the right tools do good work.

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Apply before April 15

Applications are open now and close April 15. 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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