Ellen write the text in Blue:

Why does JDRF keep rejecting Dr. Faustman?

We can not answer this question, because none of us knows why JDRF does anything that it does.  We can only speculate.  We can say things like "I think  JDRF rejected it because of blah blah blah" or "It's obvious [in my opinion] that JDRF rejected it because of blah blah blah" or anything else.  But these things come from us and not JDRF.  And they are all just blah blah blah.  And it says much more about what we believe, than why JDRF did what it did.

Does JDRF know something that we don't know about this research?

JDRF has whatever detailed request that Faustman gave them, both now and in the past.  You can be sure that they have also read every paper that Faustman has published in this area.    Who on this list has done all that?  So I think that it is very fair to say that JDRF knows something that we don't know about Faustman's research.  Not some secret knowledge, but all the publicly available knowledge (and read by people who do diabetes research professionally, and who have very wide experience in this area).  "We" on the other hand, mostly have not read Faustmans funding requests.   "We" mostly have not read her published papers, etc.    Who among us has read all of this work and compared it to the similar work done elsewhere?

Joshua Levy