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When families walk into a doctor’s office after a celiac disease diagnosis, they’re not just handed a diet sheet. They’re handed a chronic lifelong autoimmune disease.

For decades, the gluten-free diet has been the only treatment for celiac disease. While effective for many, the diet is difficult to maintain, socially isolating, and vulnerable to accidental gluten exposure. For patients and families navigating daily life with celiac disease, better tools, better treatments, and ultimately prevention remain urgent needs.

Through decades of patient advocacy, the Celiac Disease Foundation has worked with policymakers, federal agencies, and the research community to increase awareness of the urgent need for celiac disease research funding.

Thanks to federal investment through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers across the United States are working to answer the most important questions about celiac disease, from how it begins, to how it progresses, to how we might one day stop it before it starts.

The studies highlighted below represent more than $13 million in federal research investment, supporting investigators who are advancing our understanding of this complex autoimmune disease and improving care for patients.