Earlier this month we announced our 11 Seed Grant recipients. These researchers will be working in the areas of diagnosis, therapy and basic science. But what does a Seed Grant […]
November 13th is World Pancreatic Cancer Day
What is World Pancreatic Cancer Day? World Pancreatic Cancer Day was established to mobilize a global effort and raise the profile of pancreatic cancer focusing on the need for urgent […]
This November join us as we Pledge. Share. Wear.
Welcome to November! To kick off Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, we are launching our newest purple campaign, Pledge Share Wear. Here are three simple and easy ways for you to […]
More Female Seed Grant Recipients in the News
This has certainly been a newsworthy summer for women in sports, from our US Soccer team taking the World Cup title to Serena Williams winning her 21st Grand Slam title. […]
Hirshberg Foundation Supported Research Given Best Publication Award
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 […]
Promising Results: Scientists Turn Cancer Cells into Normal Cells
It is hard for me to contain my enthusiasm about the recent publication in the Journal of the Pancreas by Pamela Itkin-Ansari, PhD, a Hirshberg Seed Grant award recipient in […]