The National Pancreas Foundation Announces 2015 Research Grant Recipients
NPF Awards 200,000 Dollars to Research
Bethesda, MD – June 18, 2015 – The National Pancreas Foundation (NPF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding cutting edge research, advocating for new and better therapies, and providing support and education for those impacted by pancreatic disease, announced today that it has awarded $200,000 in research funds to deserving scientists across the United States for the 2015 fiscal year. Four grants of $50,000 will be distributed to researchers studying pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.
More information on NPF’s research program, including current and past grant recipients, can be found at https://pancreasfoundation.org/research/.
2015 Research Grants
Chirag Desai, MD Georgetown University Effect of Liver Histopathology on Islet Engraftment Post Autologous Transplant after Total Pancreatectomy for Chronic PancreatitisFlorencia McAllister, MD The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Modulating TH17cells in Pancreatic Tumorigenesis by Targeting RORγt
Andrew Rhim, MD University of Michigan Identifying Somatic Mutations in Chronic Pancreatitis
Aliye Uc, MD The University of Iowa Genetic Determinants of Pediatric Chronic Pancreatitis
About the National Pancreas Foundation
The National Pancreas Foundation (NPF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization. To fulfill its mission, the NPF raises and manages a charitable foundation from which grants are made directly to researchers seeking to resolve the challenging medical problems of pancreatic diseases. The NPF is the only foundation dedicated to patients who are suffering from all forms of pancreas disease – pediatric pancreatitis, acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.