FIFTH DISTRICT AHEPA FAMILY CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION VISITS FOX CHASE Several members of the Cancer Foundation Board of of Trustees had the opportunity to visit the Fox Chase cancer research center in Philadelphia. Our Foundation is figured prominently on the wall listing the benefactors of the center. Here are the Trustees posing in front of …
2024 Pancreatic Cancer Research Update Dr. Edna Cukierman and her team at Fox Chase Cancer Center have made significant progress in their AHEPA-funded project to develop drugs that intercept pancreatic cancer development. Their work, supported by AHEPA since 2018, focuses on targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the pancreatic tumor microenvironment, particularly synaptic proteins normally found …
New Frontiers: AI and the Research We Support MARCH 2025 In our newsletter to you last month, we reported the major announcement by the White House which described development of drug discovery processes utilizing a new technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI). The integration of AI in drug discovery is set to revolutionize a historically expensive …
From the Pines Manor to the White House! Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle, recently unveiled groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare at the White House’s Stargate Project launch in January: 1. Personalized cancer vaccines: AI could potentially create customized mRNA vaccines for individual cancer patients within 48 hours. 2. Early cancer detection: AI can …
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AHEPA Cancer Research Foundation Celebrates 36th Annual Fall Gala Our annual Gala Celebration is coming up soon! Please plan to join us November 9th at the Pines Manor. Make your reservations here: https://fifthdistrictahepacrf.com/annual-evening-of-celebration/ . A short program will announce new grants and introduce the grantees. Dancing and celebration will fill the evening! DONATIONS: …
Our annual Gala Celebration is coming up soon! Please plan to join us November 9th at the Pines Manor. Make your reservations here: https://fifthdistrictahepacrf.com/annual-evening-of-celebration/ . A short program will announce new grants and introduce the grantees. Dancing and celebration will fill the evening! MATCHING DONATIONS: If your employer offers a matching program for donations by …
This month’s newsletter continues to share the research that our Fifth District AHEPA Family Cancer Research Foundation, with your donations, support. At our Celebration last November, we issued research grants to three research teams. Two of the teams and their work were highlighted in our recent newsletters [https://fifthdistrictahepacrf.com/news/]. The third research team we are highlighting …
In last month’s newsletter, we discussed how advances in cancer research have improved survival rates by detecting cancer earlier, when treatments are most effective. However, pancreatic cancer remains a challenging exception to this progress. While it is not as common as lung, breast, or colorectal cancers, its incidence is increasing. Pancreatic cancer has one of …
