AGA Legacy Society – Dedicated Volunteers Give Valuable Time and Effort

Emmet Keeffe, MD, AGAF likes the number 100.

He says, “With 70 current members of the AGA Legacy Society – the AGA Foundation’s most generous individual donors – we are within shouting distance of reaching the magic 100 member mark by DDW 2010.” Find out more about the Legacy Society

California Family Honors Father with Second AGA Foundation Research Scholar Award

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition (FDHN) announced that the family of the late businessman and photographer, Bernard Lee Schwartz, has honored his memory by establishing a new three-year Research Scholar Award for pancreatic cancer research. The $225,000 gift from the Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation will provide a young investigator with funding and protected time for three years to focus on basic science related to pancreatic cancer. Mr. Schwartz suffered from the disease and died in 1978 at the age of 64.

Read more about the Schwartz Foundation RSA in Pancreatic Cancer

A Strong Foundation For Turbulent Times

The AGA Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition distributed almost $3 million in research grants in 2008. Despite the current stormy economic climate, the Foundation aims to distribute the same amount in 2009.

[ View Past Recipients ]

: Gregory Austin, MD, MPH
AGA Research Scholar Awards (2009)
The Effect of Macronutrients on Gastrointestinal Hormones and Gastric Emptying in Obesity
: Andrew Rhim, MD
Fellowship to Faculty Transition Award (2009)
Using genetic and molecular markers to dissect tumor cell heterogeneity in vivo
: Alexander Tang
Student Research Fellowship Award (2009)
Modulation of histone acetylation by alcohol in inflammation and liver disease
: Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc
Designated Research Scholar Award in Geriatric Gastroenterology (2009)
Sex-specific effect of alcohol and obesity and adipocytokines in geriatric fatty liver disease in a prospective population-based cohort
: Takuya Inoue, MD, PhD
Jon I Isenberg, MD International Scholar Award (2009)
Development of micorRNA biomarkers to access colon cancer risk in ulcerative colitis