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 […]
Supported Research Finds New Cause for Cancer Growth
Great news to start the new year!!! László G. Boros, MD, a former Hirshberg Seed Grant recipient to study novel mechanisms that lead to the development of pancreatic cancer, recently […]
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 […]
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 […]