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\nLA JOLLA\u2014Ronald M. Evans<\/a>, director of the Genexpressionslabor<\/a> at Salk and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, is one of three scientists chosen to receive $5 million in research funding as part of The Lustgarten Foundation’s<\/a> new “Distinguished Scholars” program, which recognizes individuals who have made outstanding achievements in research to focus their efforts on finding a cure for pancreatic Krebs<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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\nRonald M. Evans, professor, director of the Gene Expression Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology\n <\/p>\n

\nBild: Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Salk Institute for Biological Studies\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe Lustgarten Foundation, the nation’s largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research, established the new Distinguished Scholars initiative to identify and fund the best minds in research today to engage in pancreatic cancer research. The three scientists will each receive $5 million in research funding over the next five years. The grantees were selected by The Lustgarten Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board due to their historical accomplishments of breakthrough research.\n<\/p>\n

\n“I am deeply honored by The Lustgarten Foundation’s support and belief that this research will pave the road to a cure,” says Evans. “We are excited to tackle the challenge and know that this funding will help us pioneer new advances toward understanding and treating this devastating disease.”\n<\/p>\n

\n“The Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board has selected these outstanding scientists because each one is a leader in their field with the greatest potential for developing an early detection test and more effective therapies for the nation’s most lethal cancer,” says Kerri Kaplan, executive director of The Lustgarten Foundation. “Together, we will pursue our mutual goals of improving survival rates for people with pancreatic cancer and eradicating this deadly disease.”<\/p>\n

\nDouglas Fearon, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Weill Cornell Medical College, and Bert Vogelstein, of Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, will also both receive funding as part of the new program.\n<\/p>\n

\nEvans, who is also the holder of the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology, focuses on hormones and how they communicate signals within the body. Several of the hormone signals Evans discovered are primary targets in the treatment of breast cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer and leukemia, as well as osteoporosis and asthma. Most recently he has been studying the use of Vitamin D in the treatment of pancreatic cancer in the laboratory. As a Lustgarten Foundation Distinguished Scholar, he will expand these studies to conduct clinical trials in pancreatic cancer patients using Vitamin D therapies.\n<\/p>\n

\nAbout The Lustgarten Foundation and Pancreatic Cancer:<\/strong>
\nPancreatic cancer is swift and silent, often undetected until it’s too late. More than 39,000 people will die from it this year. The overall five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is six percent and most with advanced cancer die within a year. There are no early detection tests, no effective long-term treatments and, unless the cancer is surgically removed in its earliest stages, no cure. It is the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Lustgarten Foundation is America’s largest private foundation dedicated to funding pancreatic cancer research. Based in Bethpage, New York, the Foundation supports focused research to find a cure for pancreatic cancer, facilitates dialogue within the medical and scientific community, and educates the public about the disease through awareness campaigns and fundraising events. The Foundation has provided millions of research dollars and assembled the best scientific minds with the hope that one day, a cure can be found. Cablevision Systems Corporation, a leading media and telecommunications company, underwrites The Lustgarten Foundation’s administrative costs, so 100 percent of every dollar donated to the Foundation goes directly to pancreatic cancer research. Additional information about The Lustgarten Foundation is available at www.lustgarten.org<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u00dcber das Salk Institute for Biological Studies:<\/strong>
\nThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world’s preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probes fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.\n<\/p>\n

\nDie Leistungen der Fakult\u00e4t wurden mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen gew\u00fcrdigt, darunter Nobelpreise und Mitgliedschaften in der National Academy of Sciences. 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