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When the NLMSF receives a proposal for Request for Funds from an investigator, our scientific team first reads it to
evaluate it for completeness. Specifically, a request needs to include several items before it can be considered. If
anything is missing one of the doctors will contact the investigator. At that time there will be a
general discussion regarding the proposal and any questions the reviewing doctor may have at that point. When
all information has been received two additional medical colleagues are asked to review the proposal and asked
for their opinion. Finally a recommendation is then made to the Board.
Thursday, 13 December 2007 COOPERSTOWN - The fight against a rare cancer gets a boost from a national foundation with
local ties. Today Ed and Lori Hoag gave a $70,000 check
to Dr. David Blask at the Bassett Research Institute on behalf of the National Leiomyosarcoma Foundation of Maryland, New
York. "We're going to do
the first experiments in a way just to see if melatonin has some activity in inhibiting cancer," said Dr. Blask. "we
will be able to use the results of the study, If it turns out to be positive, to justify a larger study that would actually
involve treating people who have LMS." The money will be used by a research team at Bassett to study the cancer's response to melatonin. Ed Hoag says the foundation's work is in
memory of his late wife, who died of LMS. "She wanted the awareness out there," Hoag said. "That this disease is there, and we need to do something
with it." "It's
giving everyone that's been diagnosed with this disease another chance," said Lori Hoag of the Foundation. "A
sense of hope to think that there's another researcher out there willing to fight for our cause."
RESEARCH GRANTS CURRENTLY FUNDED: 2002: $5,000 : Awarded to The Pennsylvania
Hospital 2004: $20,000:
Awarded to Coriell Research Institute, Camden, NJ $20,000: Awarded to Pennsylvania Hosptial
2005: $100,000: Awarded
to Stanford University- Dr. Matt van de Rijn $30,000: Awarded to Pennsylvania Hosptial (Establish LMS Tissue Repository
Dr. Brooks) 2006: $
38,205: Awarded to Stanford University- Dr. Matt van de Rijn 2007: $ 58,000: Awarded to Stanford University- Dr. Matt van de Rijn $ 70,000:
Awarded to Bassett Research Institute- Dr. David Blask
2008 $58,000. Awarded to to Stanford University-Dr Matt Van De Rijin
Currently we have also committed additional funding of $58,000 to Stanford University
Dr. Matt Van de Rijn for 2009. |
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