We love progress!!! In 2011-2012 Emmanuelle Meuillet, PhD, received a Hirshberg Seed Grant to study novel therapeutics for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Her completed and published article “Contextual inhibition […]
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Celebrates Naming of UCLA Agi Hirshberg Center for Pancreatic Diseases
Gift will advance breakthroughs in pancreatic cancer research Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published on UCLA Newsroom. “Agi Hirshberg’s 18-year commitment to finding a cure has placed UCLA […]
Hirshberg Grantee Receives $8 Million in NIH Funding
Dr. Anna Gukovskaya from UCLA, a past Hirshberg Foundation Seed Grant recipient, has received more than $8 million in 5-year funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and […]
Breaking News
It is with happy tears that I share the following news article with you entitled “Researchers discover a metabolic mechanism for resistant pancreatic cancer.” As part of our 2010-2011 Seed […]
Our Seed Grant Recipient Receives More Than $1 million In Funding from NIH
In our 2012-2013 Seed Grant Program Alexander Tzatsos, MD, PhD, was a recipient of a $50,000 award to study the epigenetics of pancreatic cancer. We are pleased to announce he […]
Metformin’s Anti-Cancer Properties Clarified in an Obesity Cell Model of Pancreatic Cancer
SiDMAP and University of Arizona researchers gain a clearer understanding of the mechanistic properties of the drug metformin. The study may explain the mechanism of how elevated circulating cholesterol, which […]