Lustgarten Foundation

13 articles about Lustgarten Foundation

• Lustgarten Foundation Receives $424,000 Grant Establishing the Gail V. Coleman and Kenneth M. Bruntel Organoids for Personalized Therapy Project

  3/3/2021

  Devastated by the loss of her husband Kenneth Bruntel to pancreatic cancer, Gail Coleman is laser-focused on funding research offering hope and better treatment options for patients with metastatic cancer.

• The Lustgarten Foundation and the AACR Honor Two American Icons Lost to Pancreatic Cancer with New Career Development Awards for Researchers

  1/6/2021

  The Lustgarten Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research have established two new career development awards for both early-career female and under-represented pancreatic cancer researchers, representing a generous commitment of the Lustgarten Foundation of up to $1.8 million.

• Join the Lustgarten Foundation As We Walk Virtually for Pancreatic Cancer Research!

  10/30/2020

  So far, 2020 has proved to be incredibly challenging for so many of us. The Lustgarten Foundation—the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research worldwide—has been hard hit by cancelled fundraising events and decreased donations from economic insecurity.

• Lustgarten Foundation and Northwell Health Team Up for Long Island Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk

  10/2/2019

  Thousands Participate in the Nineteenth Annual Walk at Jones Beach State Park

• Lustgarten Walk--Lehigh Valley on Its Way to Raising $1 Million for Pancreatic Cancer Research

  9/12/2019

  On Sunday, September 22nd, walk leader Todd Wendling will again lead the annual Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in Allentown, Pennsylvania at Lehigh Parkway.

• Jeopardy! Champion And Former Naperville Resident, James Holzhauer, Donates To Upcoming Lustgarten Walk

  6/21/2019

  Walk in Chicago suburb raises nearly $600,000 for pancreatic cancer research since inception

• New Lustgarten-Funded Research Develops Artificial Intelligence Methods to Detect Pancreatic Cancer Earlier

  5/15/2019

  Lustgarten Foundation funded researchers at Johns Hopkins University have released promising results showing that computers can be trained to detect pancreatic tumors in CT scans, as reported in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

• Lustgarten Foundation Opens Laboratory at Johns Hopkins Focused on Early Detection and Genetics of Pancreatic Cancer

  1/23/2019

  The Lustgarten Foundation announced today the opening of its fourth dedicated pancreatic cancer research laboratory at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland.

• Genetic Sequencing of Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Enables Personalized Medicine

  6/14/2018

  Lustgarten-Funded Research Impacting Patients in Real Time

• Organoids Accurately Predict Treatment Response of Pancreatic Cancer Patients

  5/31/2018

  The researchers demonstrated that the patient-derived organoids can quickly and accurately predict how patients with pancreatic cancer respond to a variety of treatments, facilitating a personalized medicine approach to the deadly disease.

• Lustgarten-Funded Researcher Unlocks How Pancreatic Cancer Metastasizes to the Liver

  5/17/2018

  Lustgarten Foundation Distinguished Scholar Douglas Fearon, M.D., a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), has discovered how pancreatic cancer metastasizes to the liver following surgery, as reported in today's online edition of leading biomedical journal Science.

• Lustgarten Foundation Study Shows Blood Test Can Detect 8 Types of Cancer

  1/18/2018

  The test utilizes combined assays for genetic alterations and protein biomarkers and has the capacity not only to identify the presence of relatively early cancer, but also to localize the organ of origin of these cancers.

• Lustgarten Foundation Release: New Study Shows Promising Results In The Development Of More Effective Blood Test To Detect Pancreatic Cancer

  9/5/2017