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Supported Research Finds New Cause for Cancer Growth

January 15, 2016

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 […]

Filed Under: News, Research

More Female Seed Grant Recipients in the News

October 12, 2015

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. […]

Filed Under: Foundation News, News, Research

Hirshberg Foundation Supported Research Given Best Publication Award

July 8, 2015

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundation News, News, Research

Promising Results: Scientists Turn Cancer Cells into Normal Cells

April 20, 2015

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 […]

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Hirshberg Grantee Receives $8 Million in NIH Funding

November 19, 2014

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundation News, News, Research

Breaking News

August 27, 2014

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundation News, News, Research

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