The Scleroderma Foundation Will Fund
$1,025,000 in New Research Grants to Eight Researchers
in 2006
 This
cycle's Peer Review Committee carefully reviewed many
outstanding proposals from scientists in the U.S., Italy,
France, Spain, and Denmark. They selected the top scoring
grants based on the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
criteria.
This announcement continues 18 years of commitment
to finding the cause and cure of scleroderma, a chronic
rheumatic disease that affects approximately 300,000
Americans, 80 percent of whom are women diagnosed between
the ages of 25 and 55. It also brings the Scleroderma
Foundation's total dollars dedicated to research since
1989 to nearly $12 million.
To learn more about our research philosophy and our
awardees past and present, please visit the research
section of our website:
www.scleroderma.org/research/researchhome.shtm
The Scleroderma Foundation is pleased to announce the
following as the recipients for the 2006 research funding
cycle:
- Todd Bull, M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center
- Vincent Falanga, M.D., FACP, Roger Williams Medical
Center
- Jaspreet Pannu, BS, MS, Ph.D., Medical University
of South Carolina
- Dinesh Khanna, M.D., M.S., University of Cincinnati
- Weng Kee Wong, Ph.D., M.S., UCLA School of Public
Health, Dept. of Biostatistics
- Virginia Steen, M.D., Georgetown University Medical
Center
- Swati Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., Northwestern University
- Sohail Ahmed, M.D., Boston University School of
Medicine
Learn
more about these researchers and their projects. |
