The Hirshberg Foundation is excited to have Anirban Maitra, MBBS, joining us at the 13th Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer to share important information about the challenges of treating this […]
EPC Hirshberg Award Winners Announced
At the 48th meeting of the European Pancreatic Club, held this past June 8, 2016, in Liverpool, winners of the Hirshberg Awards were presented by one of the leading pancreatic […]
Seed Grant Recipient Receives Prestigious NIH Award
Dr. Timothy Frankel, MD, University of Michigan, has received the NIH Clinical Scientist Career Development Award. This award is a 5 year study totaling $875,000. The NIH funded project is […]
New Hope for Treating Pancreatic Cancer
Stephen Pandol, MD, and Mouad Edderkaoui, PhD, from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have developed a novel drug, Metavert, to treat pancreatic cancer. The drug is designed to prevent metastasis of pancreatic […]
2015 Seed Grant Awardee Published
I am pleased to share the following publication featured in the prestigious journal “Nature, April 16, 2016”. George Miller, MD, one of our Seed Grant Awardee’s in the 2015-16 cycle, […]
New method of drug delivery may be safer and more effective against pancreatic cancer
UCLA researchers use nanoparticles to send chemotherapy drug directly to the tumor site, reducing damage to healthy tissues By Shaun Mason The overall five-year survival rate for people with pancreatic […]