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2013 DeGregorio Family Foundation Grant Award recipient announced!

CLEVELAND –February 6, 2013 - The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $220,000 grant from the DeGregorio Family Foundation to study gastric cancers, which remain among the most deadly forms of disease. Click here to read the press release.

D'Alessandro: Montclair man to run New York City Marathon two years after having stomach removed. Read the article.

Advancing Understanding, Catalyzing Research - DeGregorio Family Foundation. New article at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital web site.

Most people who have started foundations have certainly had more money and experience than Lynn DeGregorio - think of Carnegie or Rockefeller - but while she is not the first person to start a foundation, few have felt their philanthropy as personally. The DeGregorio Family Foundation was founded by Lynn when her sister was diagnosed with the same type of stomach cancer that had taken her father's life nearly three decades earlier. The doctors treating her sister had no more effective treatments in 2004 than they had in 1976 when her father got sick. Lynn's grandmother and many other members of her extended family had died from stomach cancer as well. Read the complete article...

DeGregorio Familiy Foundation is pleased to be joined by Evamor in the fight against stomach and esophageal cancer. Read more about Evamor here.

Welcome Dr. Oz show viewers! Thank you for your interest in helping us turn the terrible facts about stomach and esophageal cancer into fiction. Please take a few minutes to learn more about the work that your contribution will help us support.

DeGregorio Family Foundation funding has led to exciting new discoveries in the genetic characteristics of esophageal cancer. Please click here to read more about the findings of this study.

The DeGregorio Family Foundation is pleased to announce that we have awarded $250,000 in two new grants after a highly competitive grant application and selection process which included proposals from some of the nation’s most prestigious medical research institutions. For more on these grants, please read more at Our Research. Many thanks to all of our contributors for making these generous grants possible.

Congratulations to Pat Armstrong for running the 2011 NYC Marathon! Read more on Pat's story:

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/runner-patrick-armstrong-tackles-nyc-marathon-without-stomach-110511

http://www.nj.com/sports/njsports/index.ssf/2011/11/dalessandro_montclair_man_to_r.html

On December 19, 2011, the DeGregorio Family Foundation visited the NYSE highlighting the urgency for more funding of stomach and esophageal cancer research. In honor of the occasion, the Board of Directors of the DeGregorio Family Foundation rang the closing bell.

https://exchanges.nyx.com/en/new-york-stock-exchange/degregorio-family-foundation-nyse

The DeGregorio Family Foundation is proud to support research. In 2006, the Foundation funded the MSKCC registry to better understand the various types of stomach cancers. Read about the exciting research that was supported by the findings of the MSKCC registry.

We welcome the New York Stock Exchange and the Seaport Group as corporate sponsors of the DeGregorio Family Foundation.