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Career Development Awards
How Chickenpox and Fruit Flies Can Help Shape a Career The inaugural winners of the Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Career Development Awards for Pancreatic Cancer Research in Honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Robert Lewis were announced at the 2021 AACR annual meeting. For Dr. Avery Posey it was a bout with chickenpox when he was in 4th [...]
Remembering Stephen Grand
By Kerri Kaplan, President Stephen Grand: Pancreatic Cancer Fighter and Research Funder Our hearts are broken at the news of the passing of Lustgarten ally and donor, Stephen Grand of Belvedere, CA. A passionate and insightful philanthropist, as well as a pancreatic cancer patient, Steve was in the unique position of understanding the urgency of [...]
Grateful Survivor Shares His Journey in New Book
By Vanessa Steil When Joel Evans went to his endocrinologist in 2015 for what he thought would be a routine visit to monitor his diabetes, it turned into anything but. The findings were alarming—elevated blood work indicating he might be suffering from a serious illness. Joel was shocked. When the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer—a disease [...]
Research + Love =
A Cure
By Joe Barone & Laura Hull This is a story about a family who let love be their guide in the face of daunting obstacles. In 2004, when their beloved mom, Terry Romeo, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, it was the love and support of her husband of more than 50 years, Tony, and her [...]
When the Doctor Becomes the Patient
By Joe Barone For 29 years, Robert Gotlin operated a practice in New York City specializing in musculoskeletal medicine, sports injuries, and orthopedic rehabilitation. Treating two generations of families, Dr. Gotlin was considered their personal ‘family guy,’ not just the sports doc. That’s what made closing up shop much more difficult. Dr. Gotlin battled pancreatitis [...]
PC Research in the time of COVID-19
By Caitlin Kelly – October 22, 2020 Checking in With Our Dedicated Labs As the COVID pandemic began to hit hard earlier this year, researchers working on pancreatic cancer research for the Lustgarten Foundation scrambled to make sense of how to continue their life-saving research. The four Lustgarten Foundation dedicated pancreatic cancer labs—Cold Spring Harbor [...]
Twenty Years of Walking
By Joe Barone - September 14, 2020 Carmela Cettina always stressed the importance of being together. And how ironic, as we find ourselves in uncertain times where being together can only be achieved virtually through a Zoom call, FaceTime, or a drive-by celebration of horn honks and balloons. Even after succumbing to her battle with [...]
Leave a Lasting Gift to
Support Pancreatic Cancer Research
By Vanessa Steil - August 21,2020 Susan Martinson can still recall the moment she found out her 77-year-old mother, Marie C. Martinson, had been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. “It was May 2014 and aside from some weight loss and back pain a year earlier, my mother was otherwise healthy. I was shocked to [...]
Trebek Memoir: Reflections on My Life
By Caitlin Kelly - July, 31, 2020 When you think of historic moments on Jeopardy, it’s usually the final and shocking defeat of a legendary champion, like “Jeopardy James” Holzhauer or Ken Jennings, who each won millions after weeks of play. But it was a soft-spoken college undergraduate from Gainesville, Ga., Dhruv Gaur, whose spontaneous [...]
Creativity and Curiosity in Research
By Caitlin Kelly- July 20, 2020
