#GivingTuesday – 11/27/2018
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Dr. Alan S. Cohen, founding Director of the Amyloidosis Center, passes away at age 92
It is with the utmost sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Alan S. Cohen, the founding director of The Amyloidosis Center. Dr. Cohen established The Amyloidosis Center as well as the first Arthritis section at the Boston University School of Medicine in 1960. His contributions in the clinical and scientific study of Amyloidosis […]
Ann Peel Urges the US Congress to Support Amyloidosis Research
Ann Peel gave her testimony on amyloidosis to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on April 15th. The testimony seeks support for Amyloidosis programs from Congress in the fiscal year 2017 Labor, Health Services and Education Appropriations bill. Please see her complete statement below. We are very grateful to Ann and Terry Peel for their dedication to bringing […]
Bedford, NH Student Honors Her Late Father with Senior Project
Bedford student honors late father with senior project http://www.wmur.com/health/bedford-student-honors-late-father-with-senior-project/38711062?src=app
Fit To Be Tied: Race for Amyloidosis Awareness
Bob was a psychologist for over 30 years, wearing crazy ties to work every day. So we thought it was only fitting to call his race: “Fit To Be Tied” Come out and run in memory of Bob Palmer and in support of Amyloidosis research and awareness on May 22nd in Onondaga Lake Park in […]
Calli and Saige Beatman’s Mini Golf Charity “Fun” Raiser
Calli and Saige Beatman Fundraiser in memory of “grandma”. Calli and Saige lost their grandmother to amyloidosis in 2014. Saige, a 6th grader at McGee Middle School in Berlin, CT won an essay contest advocating for charity. She chose the Amyloidosis Center and is working with her older sister Calli, who is doing the fundraiser. […]
Connors and Colleagues Publish Findings in ATTRwt Amyloidosis Cohort
Data on the largest cohort of ATTRwt amyloidosis patients yet reported (n=121), referred to our institution over a 20-year observational period, were recently reported in the prestigious heart journal, Circulation. The publication, entitled “Heart failure due to age-related cardiac amyloid disease associated with wild-type transthyretin: a prospective, observational cohort study,” was authored by Dr. Lawreen […]
Dr. Vaishali Sanchorawala – Recent Invited Presentations
“A Zebra Loses Its Stripes, Diagnosis and Treatment of Systemic Amyloidosis” June 2015 – Grand Round talk given at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, CA http://youtu.be/R3J3F8Pvzuo “Untangling Amyloidosis” December 2015 – Oral presentation at American Society of Hematology in Orlando, FL http://livestream.com/accounts/10952998/events/4502460/player?width=640&height=360&autoPlay=true&mute=false%22
The Wildflower Foundation Continues Support For AL Amyloidosis Research
The Wildflower Foundation, Inc. (Miami, FL) has renewed their funding in support of the study entitled ““Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloid Fibril Formation: Structural Determinants as a Platform for Drug Development.” Lawreen H. Connors, PhD, is the principal investigator of the study. Through the generous support from The Wildflower Foundation, Dr. Connors and team have made significant […]
Dr. Connors, new grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
July 2, 2014 Dr. Lawreen Connors, director of the Gerry Amyloid Research Laboratory, thanks the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation for their support of her proposal to study “Blood Profiling for Biomakers in Age-related ‘Senile’ Systemic Amyloidosis.”