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A project funded by the EHE Foundation, the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK), and the EHE Rare Cancer Foundation Australia, and led by Dr. Ryan Kanai in the Lamar Lab, was recently published in Cancers, revealing a surprising new role for AMPK in controlling the growth of EHE cells. Dr. Kanai set out to find […]
Read MoreWe are thrilled to share a new publication that includes participation of EHE advocacy organizations: “How to foster new treatment development in ultra-rare tumours? Joint EMA-EORTC multi-stakeholder workshops on ultra-rare sarcomas as a model for rare cancers.” Leaders of the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK), the EHE Foundation, and EHE ITALIA Associazione Non Solo Laura […]
Read MoreIn 2022, the EHE Foundation funded the Lamar Lab’s project entitled ‘Use of Pre-clinical EHE Models to Identify Druggable Pathways to Treat EHE,’ with the goal of identifying FDA-approved drugs that can be repurposed to treat EHE. By looking for drugs that are already FDA-approved, ideally, positive pre-clinical findings could be more rapidly translated to […]
Read MoreAs partners in EHE research to find better treatments for people with EHE, the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK), the EHE Foundation, and EHE ITALIA Associazione Non Solo Laura ODV are excited to share the expansion of the multi-national collaborative research project “The generation and characterization of patient-derived models of EHE to assess the activity […]
Read MoreBy Seth Haddix, PhD | EHE Biobank Coordinator When patients are thinking about surgery, a new biopsy, or other procedure, their minds are filled with decisions and worry. Tissue donation isn’t usually top of mind, and for more common cancers, it is not something we think about as a priority. For an ultra-rare cancer like […]
Read MoreWatch David Casimir, PhD, JD as he provides a patient-level presentation addressing the questions: What is the Hippo pathway and TEAD? How do they relate to EHE? How are they being used to develop EHE treatments? How do these treatments move from the laboratory, through clinical trials, to patient care? Session Recording and Slides Click […]
Read MoreHeld on April 15, 2023, during EHE Awareness Month, the annual EHE 360 EMPOWERING PATIENTS 2023 Global Patient Conference featured an international group of clinicians and researchers presenting the latest clinical and research developments in epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE). This virtual conference left EHE patients and families, doctors, researchers, and advocates empowered with a broader understanding of EHE […]
Read MoreIn March Denise Robinson, our Director of Research joined Dr. Scott Okuno, Chief Medical Officer for SARC (Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration) to talk about EHE research and patient advocacy. Their discussion beautifully lays out the challenges of facilitating research in the ultra-rare disease landscape. Denise and Dr. Okuno also talked about the growth […]
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