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 […]
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 […]
Researchers discover a metabolic mechanism for resistant pancreatic cancer
Originally published in Health Canal Mitochondrial function steps in to save cancer cells after tumor-driving mutation is stifled. Knock out a genetic mutation that’s a driving force behind pancreatic cancer […]
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 […]