Foundation Research Scholar Reports Progress in Project Focused on Peritoneal Spread
When Samuel J. Klempner, M.D. received the $300,000 Ben Feinstein Memorial Research Scholar Award from the Gastric Cancer Foundation and the American... Read More
Foundation Awards New Grants to Researchers Pursuing Novel Approaches in Gastric Cancer
The biggest challenge facing researchers who have exciting but unproven ideas for fighting gastric cancer is raising the funds they need to... Read More
Gastric Cancer Registry Team Reports Major Progress in Webinar
In April, Hanlee Ji, MD, associate professor of medicine at Stanford University and principal investigator of the Gastric Cancer Registry, presented a... Read More
New Published Research from the Gastric Cancer Registry Team
Our Gastric Cancer Registry project at Stanford is leading to important research and new discoveries. A recently published study used joint single... Read More
Foundation Funds Major Expansion of Gastric Cancer Registry
The Gastric Cancer Foundation has committed $257,856 to fund a transformative expansion of the Gastric Cancer Registry in 2021. The funding will... Read More
Gastric Cancer Registry Prepares to Launch Innovative Data Portal
The Gastric Cancer Registry is the first comprehensive repository of clinical and genomic data pertaining to stomach cancer. Its chief aims are... Read More
Foundation-Funded Lab at MD Anderson Advances Discoveries in Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
About 45% of gastric cancer patients experience peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC), the spread of the cancer to the abdominal lining—a development that’s associated... Read More
New Grant Awarded to USC for Study of Epigenetic Targets in Gastric Cancer
Some gastric tumors have genetic abnormalities that can be directly targeted with drugs, such as HER2 mutations. But cancer is a complex... Read More
New Foundation Grant to Dana-Farber for Study of “Chromosomal Instability” in Gastric Cancer
Gastric tumors with a genetic abnormality called microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) can be treated with immune-targeted drugs, but there’s a much more common... Read More
GCF-AGA Grant Awards Newest Research Scholar: Samuel J Klempner, MD
Samuel J. Klempner, M.D., was completing his fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston when he first became interested in... Read More