What area of diabetes research does your project cover? What role will this particular project play in preventing, treating and/or curing diabetes? This research project seeks to accelerate efforts to prevent early-onset type 2 diabetes through characterization of high-risk glucose-insulin homeostasis and body mass index trajectories from childhood through young adulthood, and development of multi-'omics prediction algorithms. If a person with diabetes were to ask you how your project will help them in the future, how would you respond? While this project focuses on prevention of type 2