{"id":20456,"date":"2023-01-16T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/ecd-staging\/?p=20456"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:58:20","slug":"uplifting-athletes-tildeler-ecd-global-alliance-investigator-et-tilskudd-pa-20-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/uplifting-athletes-awards-ecd-global-alliance-investigator-20k-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Uplifting Athletes tildeler ECD Global Alliance-forskeren et $20k-stipend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upliftingathletes.org\/\">Uplifting Athletes<\/a>, en ideell organisasjon som arbeider for \u00e5 st\u00f8tte personer med sjeldne sykdommer, har kunngjort at dr. Jithma Abeykoon skal motta et $20 000-forskningsstipend som medlem av Uplifting Athletes\u2019 \u00abYoung Investigator Draft Class\u00bb for 2023. Dr. Abeykoon ble nominert til stipendet av Erdheim Chester Disease Global Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abeykoon er f\u00f8rsteamanuensis i hematologi og medisinsk onkologi ved Mayo Clinic i Minnesota og er aktivt engasjert i forskning og behandling av Erdheim-Chester-syndromet (ECD). ECD er en sjelden form for blodkreft som f\u00f8rer til opphopning av histocytter, celler som vanligvis bekjemper infeksjoner i organer over hele kroppen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr. Abeykoons forskningsstipend skal st\u00f8tte forskning for \u00e5 identifisere en ny prognostisk mark\u00f8r og en ny behandlingsstrategi for pasienter med ECD, en sjelden form for blodkreft. Han vil spesielt se p\u00e5 hvordan det medisinske milj\u00f8et kan p\u00e5virke transporten av molekyler fra cellekjernen til cytoplasmaet i kreftceller for \u00e5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01dmRDkm_400x400-300x300-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-175253 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01dmRDkm_400x400-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01dmRDkm_400x400-300x300-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01dmRDkm_400x400-300x300-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01dmRDkm_400x400-300x300-1-12x12.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>terapeutisk nytte. Hans forskning kan f\u00f8re til oppdagelsen av nye behandlingsstrategier med nye virkningsmekanismer for pasienter med ECD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe ECD Global Alliance is excited and grateful to be partnering with Uplifting Athletes to support this research conducted by Dr. Abeykoon.\u00a0 As someone living with ECD, I know firsthand the importance of expanding research that could lead to better treatment and monitoring, with fewer side effects,\u201d <strong>sa Mohammad Chowdhury, styremedlem i ECD Global Alliance.<\/strong> \u201cVi er glade for at dr. Abeykoon tar i bruk en pasientfokusert tiln\u00e6rming for \u00e5 arbeide mot dette m\u00e5let.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abeykoon er en av en gruppe p\u00e5 10 forskere som hver skal motta ubetingede tilskudd til medisinsk forskning ved<br \/>\nUplifting Athletes\u2019 sjette \u00e5rlige \u00abYoung Investigator Draft\u00bb den 4. februar 2023 p\u00e5 Lincoln Financial Field i Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDet er en \u00e6re for meg \u00e5 motta dette stipendet. Jeg har viet min karriere til \u00e5 forbedre behandlingen av pasienter med sjeldne kreftformer,\u201d <strong>sa dr. Jithma Abeykoon<\/strong>. \u00a0\u201cMy goal is to make discoveries at the bench and deliver to patients at the bedside with the hope that the work<br \/>\n\u201dDet vi gj\u00f8r, vil bidra til \u00e5 \u00f8ke pasientenes velv\u00e6re. Sammen som et lag lykkes vi \u2013 akkurat som i fotball!\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>For mer informasjon om ECD Global Alliance-tilskudd og forskning, klikk her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/funding-research\/\">her<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uplifting Athletes, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the rare disease community, has announced that Dr. Jithma Abeykoon will receive a $20,000 research grant as a member of Uplifting Athletes\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51,70],"tags":[133,134,56,82,52,130],"class_list":["post-20456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research-awareness","tag-disease-education","tag-ecd-awareness","tag-erdheim-chester","tag-rare-cancer","tag-rare-disease","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175255,"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456\/revisions\/175255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erdheim-chester.org\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}