The National Pancreas Foundation is honored to have a board of distinguished, accomplished and passionate member.  We want to highlight one of our board members, Steven Freedman, MD, PhD, a Dean at Harvard Medical School and senior physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.  He has been honored at two recent events and [...]

Important Legislation Introduced Regarding NIH Funding Our friends at the Digestive Disease National Coalition asked us to pass along this very important message regarding NIH funding. We encourage all  DDNC members to contact their 2 senators and ask them to sign onto this letter.  Contact information for all senators can be found here http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm The deadline [...]

May 2010 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) introduced legislation aimed at fighting pancreatic cancer by increasing funding for research. The Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act (S. 3320) would increase awareness of pancreatic cancer and authorize an NIH grant program to better fund research on prevention, early detection, and treatment.  This is the companion bill [...]