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The EHE Foundation is proud to have awarded the 2023 Fellowship Travel Grant to Nicholas (Nick) Scalora, a 5th year graduate research assistant in the Tanas Laboratory, at the University of Iowa, where the team studies the role of the Hippo pathway in sarcomas. Dr. Munir Tanas, expert pathologist and researcher, was first author of […]
Last week EHE Foundation Director of Research Denise Robinson, attended the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) 2023 annual meeting in Dublin, Ireland. Every year, physicians, scientists, and advocates from around the world come together to advance patient care and increase knowledge in connective tissue tumors. EHE is one of over 100 subtypes of sarcoma, which […]
In September 2023, EHE Director of Research Denise Robinson met over three days in Milan, Italy, with patient advocates and researchers to discuss EHE research funded by this community. Exciting progress is happening in this multi-national collaborative research under the leadership of Dr. Silvia Stacchiotti and Dr. Nadia Zaffaroni (Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS, Milan), and […]
Investigator: John Lamar, PhD, Albany Medical College Dr. Lamar was awarded a 3-year grant by The EHE Foundation in 2022, that aims to identify FDA-approved drugs that inhibit EHE cell growth, and then test them in pre-clinical mouse models for the treatment of EHE. What does this mean for patients? This could mean a shorter […]
Investigator: Ajaybabu Pobbati, PhD, Cleveland Clinic – Lerner Research Institute In 2022, The EHE Foundation funded a grant to Dr. Pobbati for research that looks at a library of current FDA-approved drugs that act as TAZ-CAMTA1 (TC) or TEAD inhibitors, for use in EHE. What does this mean for patients? This could mean a shorter […]
Join us for EHE Community Connections as we discuss “Championing Our Cause: How Patients Support Fundraising.” Collaborate with other patients and caregivers to explore the most creative and effective fundraising ideas. Together, let’s talk about how to better engage our own community of donors, create awareness and raise money for this one-in-a-million cancer! This workshop […]
The European Organisation of Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) is conducting research to better understand health-related quality of life (HRQoL) concerns among people living with rare cancers. Recently, researchers analyzed results from a group of 31 people with EHE from 11 different countries who participated in the study. The findings showed that pain–and the […]
Prior research has shown that a class of medications called microtubule inhibitors may be effective at controlling the growth of EHE tumors. Recently, researchers conducted a phase 2 study to test whether the microtubule inhibitor eribulin is a safe and effective way to treat patients whose tumors continued to grow after prior treatment. Six (6) […]