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Amyloidosis Foundation Patient Webinar 6/1 Online
Did you miss out on the Amyloidosis Foundation Patient Webinar presented by Dr. Vaishali Sanchorawala and Dr. Frederick L. Ruberg? Now you can listen to it online here: Learn more about it here: http://www.amyloidosis.org/untangling-amyloidosis-webinar/
Ann Peel Urges the US Congress to Support Amyloidosis Research for 2018
Ann Peel gave her testimony on amyloidosis to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on June 2nd. The testimony seeks support for Amyloidosis programs from Congress in the fiscal year 2018 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 […]
2nd Annual Fit to Be Tied 5K Race/3K Walk on Sunday 5/21
We honor, And we fight! I would like to announce our 2nd Annual Fit To Be Tied 5K Race/3K Walk on Sunday, May 21st at Onondaga Lake Park, in memory of my husband, Bob Palmer, who died of Amyloidosis. This very rare disease occurs when abnormal protein fibrils produced by the bone marrow, gets deposited […]
Blood proteomic profiling in inherited (ATTRm) and acquired (ATTRwt) forms of transthyretin-associated cardiac amyloidosis.
Authors: Chan GG, Koch CM, Connors LH. View the article here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00998 Chan GG, Koch CM, Connors LH. Blood proteomic profiling in inherited (ATTRm) and acquired (ATTRwt) forms of transthyretin-associated cardiac amyloidosis. J Proteome Res. 2017 Feb 14. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00998. View in: PubMed
2/17/17: Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds – Transthyretin-associated (ATTR) cardiomyopathy: A not uncommon, rare disease
Lawreen H. Connors, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pathology and Biochemistry Director, Alan and Sandra Gerry Amyloid Laboratory Frederick L. Ruberg, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine Department of Radiology Friday, February 17, 2017 12PM – 1PM Keefer Auditorium Target Audience: Department of Medicine Faculty and House Staff and BUSM […]
3/4/17: 10th Annual Bill Cunningham Race to Beat Amyloid
Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD, Named Amyloidosis Center Director and Skinner Professor
Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD, has been appointed Director of the Amyloidosis Center, and named the Wesley and Charlotte Skinner Professor for Research in Amyloidosis. A professor of medicine in the Section of Hematology/Oncology and director of the BMC Stem Cell Transplant Program, Dr. Sanchorawala joined the program in 1994 and has served as associate director of […]
Waltham resident calms fears as hospital patient liaison
Read the full article here: http://waltham.wickedlocal.com/news/20161214/waltham-resident-calms-fears-as-hospital-patient-liaison
Longitudinal systolic strain, cardiac function improvement, and survival following treatment of light-chain (AL) Cardiac amyloidosis
Authors: Francesco Salinaro MD, Hans K. Meier-Ewert MD, Edward J. Miller MD, Shivda Pandey MD, Vaishali Sanchorawala MD, John L. Berk MD, David C. Seldin MD, and Frederick L. Ruberg MD View the article here: al-strain-salinaro-ehj-cvi-2016
Graduate student Jacquelyn Sikora Hanson successfully defends thesis
Jacquelyn Sikora Hanson, PhD successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Transthyretin gene regulation in wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis” on Monday, November 21. Her committee members were Vickery Trinkaus-Randall (Chair), Lawreen Connors (primary advisor and first reader), Nader Rahimi (second reader), Clinton Baldwin, George Murphy, and David Sherr.