The Hirshberg Foundation maintains its longstanding partnership with UCLA and is a crucial source of support for a wide range of research programs, patient care initiatives, and faculty members in the UCLA Agi Hirshberg Center for Pancreatic Diseases. Despite the difficulties of 2020, our supporters help us provide the financial stability necessary to face challenges […]
UCLA Researchers Receive Over $6M from NIH to Study Potential Immunotherapies for Pancreatic Cancer
Research teams at UCLA have received two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), totaling over $6 million dollars to study the immunobiology of pancreatic tumors and develop a series of immunotherapy clinical trials. Our Seed Grant Program funded the early stages of these research projects and provided the preliminary data used to secure […]
Hirshberg funded UCLA study finds combination therapy suppresses pancreatic tumor growth
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, including our Scientific Advisory Board member and close collaborator, Dr. Timothy Donahue have uncovered a therapy that subdues tumor growth. The study, published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by the Hirshberg Foundation the National Cancer Institute. As Dr. Donahue told us, “This […]
Research Publications from the Sahin-Toth Laboratory in 2020
In 2019 the Hirshberg Foundation supported UCLA in the recruitment of Miklos Sahin-Toth, MD, PhD, a leading pancreatic disease researcher and a specialist in chronic pancreatitis. The Sahin-Toth Laboratory is located next door and works closely with the The Ronald S. Hirshberg Translational Pancreatic Cancer Research Laboratory, headed by long-standing director Guido Eibl, MD, Professor, […]
Scientific Update: How the Pandemic has Reshaped Research
A few of our 2019 Seed Grant recipients share how they have adapted their work in the face of COVID-19
Collaborative Seed Grant Award Focuses on Understanding Pancreatitis-Promoted Pancreatic Cancer
The Hirshberg Foundation is pleased to announce a multi-researcher project will be funded for the 2020 Seed Grant. Expanding on current research underway at the Hirshberg Laboratory for Pancreatic Cancer Research at UCLA, this project will look at the influence of hereditary pancreatitis on pancreatic cancer development. While there is no one cause for developing […]