Home Patient Registries LMSdr Patient Location Sarcoma Registry The Foundation Mission Statement Board of Trustees Executive Director Staff Scientific Advisory Committee Annual Budget Founder's Page eAlerts News and Advocacy News Newsletter Advocacy Media Coverage How to Help Ways to Help Pins & Bracelets Brochure Shop for the Cause Send an eCard Buy a Book I Can Do This Secrets of a Man's Garden The Letters Hear My Cry Fighting Disease, Not Death Send an eCard Donate Now Memorials and Tribute Funds Thank You, Donors 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 Fundraisers Patient Resources Treatment Possibilities Sarcoma Centers Patient to Patient Caregiver's Corner Our Stories LMS Info & Support What is LMS? Abbreviations Clinical Trials Patient Locations Adult Trials Child Trials Non-USA Trials ULMS Trial Update SUCCEED Trial Tissue Bank Research Grants Stanford Cedars Sinai Grant Application Grants Awarded Cure Leiomyosarcoma Excellence In Care Contact Us Grants Awarded January 2010 $25,000 was awarded to Dr. Sandra Orsulic of Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. This is the second installment of a $50,000 grant provided by LMSarcoma Direct Research Foundation. Dr. Orsulic has also received grants from NIH (R01-CA103924), Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative, and the Sarcoma Foundation of America. View this Priority Report: 'A Role for BRCA1 in Uterine Leiomyosarcoma' published by the American Association for Cancer Research View this Progress Report by Dr. Orsulic. November 2009 Leiomyosarcoma Direct Research Foundation awards $50,000 Research Grant to Stanford to be used in The Dr. Matthijs van de Rijn Gift Fund. Dr. van de Rijn and his team continue to research leiomyosarcoma. Read the Letter of appreciation. Dr. Matt's Research: Dr. Matt van de Rijn has provided this link to the Stanford Tissue Microarray Consortium with their research on the 'Prognostic significance of macrophage infiltration in leiomyosarcomas'. August 2009 $25,000 was awarded to Dr. Sandra Orsulic of Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. This is the first installment of a $50,000 grant provided by LMSarcoma Direct Research Foundation. Dr. Orsulic has also received grants from NIH (R01-CA103924), Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative, and the Sarcoma Foundation of America. April 2008 Leiomyosarcoma Direct Research Foundation awards $50,000 Research Grant. Matt van de Rijn M.D., of Stanford University; Jonathan Fletcher M.D., of Dana Farber Cancer Center and Chris Coreless M.D., of Washington State University have formed a research collaborative to work together as a team towards seeking the cure for Leiomyosarcoma. These researchers are already well known among the Leiomyosarcoma community of patients and professionals. This project will need considerably more funding as it progresses over time and LMSdr hopes to make future contributions. June 2007 $25,000 Research Grant - donated by LMSdr in tandem with $25,000 from Liddy Shriver Foundation ($50,000 total grant) to NYU School of Medicine. Grant for Eva Hernando LMS project. February 2007 Non-Research. $1,000 donated to ACOR Listserve for equipment failure problem. ACOR is the Listserve utilized by Leiomyosarcoma patients to share information and is a necessity for the LMS community being able to communicate together. December 2006 $40,000 Research Grant to Matt Van de Rijn at Stanford University. Leiomyosarcoma Research - Microarray. Last Edited - 25 February 2010 13:39 pm