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  Previous Recipients:
  Normal Siegel, MD,
  Department of Pediatic Nephrology Yale University,
  CT, USA,
  A career development award
  
  Vivette D. D'Agati, MD,
  Columbia University,
  NY, USA
  
  Pierre Ronco, MD, PhD,
  Hopital Tenon, INSERM,
  Paris, France
  
  Detlef Bockenhauer, MD, PhD,
  Great Ormond Street Children's
  Hospital, London, UK
  On famial MN X linked
  genetic susceptibility
  
  Susan L. Hogan, MD, MPH
  UNC Kidney Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
  causal factors for onset MN case control study
  
  Laurence H. Beck, Jr., MD, PhD,
  Boston University School
  of Medicine, Development of an ELISA for the detection of auto antibodies in MN
  
  

Grant Opportunities

The Halpin Foundation supports the study of kidney and autoimmune diseases funds research. The organization is a vocal advocate trying to garner attention in the scientific community. We want the general public to have an understanding of these "orphan diseases". The Halpin family, in the years before the formation of the Foundation, funded research projects in the US and abroad. The foundation was recognized by the IRS in 2003 and in 2004/5 will partner with the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) in a grant for the study of membranous. Learn more about our partnership with ASN here.

At the prestigious annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology this October, a full symposium will be devoted to the entity of membranous nephropathy to highlight recent research advances and to stimulate additional investigations. The symposium will present an international perspective, and will attract a diverse audience whom we hope will be encouraged to devote time and intellect to the consideration of the pathogenesis and therapy for this disorder.

Since our son's diagnosis in 1989, I have read medical journals not only in nephrology, but also in genetics and numerous other fields looking for not only an understanding, but also a basic awareness of who is doing the most promising research. Many times diseases share a common biological pathway; therefore this has led us outside the field of nephrology.

In addition, patient activism is now at a new level. Foundations are not merely established to inform the public about diseases. They are established to fund actual research. Our Foundation is part of a movement that offers new hope for the more than 25 million people with so-called "orphan diseases" that are either rare or difficult to cure.

We are driven to find answers and cures. To that end please email me directly for biomedical grant opportunites.

Sincerely,

Joan R. Halpin, President

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