History
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2022
- LE&RN's Advocacy results in Congress calling for creation of a National Commission on Lymphatic Diseases
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) establishes a Working Group to pursue the National Commission
- LE&RN succeeds at getting Congress to add LE and LD to the Dept. of Defense's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) opening its $400M medical research budget to lymphatics
- NIH creates categories for LE and LD for the first time in its history
- LE&RN welcomes its 50th Center of Excellence into the program
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2018
- LE&RN creates Physician CME Seminar in Lymphatic Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- LE&RN inaugurates first Legislative Lobby Days in Washington, DC to advocate for research funding
- LE&RN establishes standards for lymphatic disease Centers of Excellence
- LE&RN authors New York State first-in-nation bill mandating all hospitals give lymphedema information packets to all at-risk patients
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2017
- LE&RN Spokesperson Kathy Bates honored by Research America with "Impact on Public Opinion Award"
- LE&RN co-organizes the inaugural biennial researcher event Lymphatic Forum: Exploring the Lymphatic Continuum in Chicago, June 2017
- LE&RN partners with Harvard University Medical Schools for the first Lymphedema Symposium in Boston, MA
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2016
- March 6 officially established as World Lymphedema Day by U.S. Senate, New York legislature, and countries around the world
- International Chapters inaugurated
- LE&RN spearheads $70M US Senate Appropriations request sponsored by Sen. Schumer (NY)
- Spokesperson Kathy Bates takes LE&RN's mission center stage on a multitude of network television shows and print cover stories
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2015
- LE&RN/Fat Disorder Research Society Lipedema Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards established
- LE&RN/NAVBO partnership to establish biennial conference in lymphatics
- Agreement to transfer University of Pittsburgh’s Family Lymphedema Study bio-specimens into LE&RN’s tissue bank
- State Chapters inaugurated
- First Virtual Expo established
- LE&RN receives GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Award
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2014
- “Ask the Experts” web feature established to connect patients to leading authorities
- The LE&RN/LymphNotes Lymphedema Therapist Scholarship Program is founded
- NYC Walk to Fight Lymphedema and Lymphatic Diseases crosses Brooklyn Bridge for the first time
- The Face of Lymphedema Challenge and Membership Campaign are kicked off
- Academy Award-winning Actress Kathy Bates becomes LE&RN’s Spokesperson
- New York State Legislature awards funding for National Patient Registry & Tissue Bank
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2013
- LRF becomes LE&RN with an expanded mission and opens New York City office
- Live-streamed Medical & Research Symposium Series established
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2012
- LE&RN National Lymphatic Disease and Lymphedema Tissue Bank established
- Breakthrough study, blood test for diagnosis of lymphedema published—Stanford University School of Medicine Endowed Chair
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2010
- First annual Walk to Fight Lymphedema & Lymphatic Diseases
- LE&RN National Lymphatic Disease and Lymphedema Patient Registry created
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2008
- First-ever Endowed Chair of Lymphatic Research and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine established
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2006
- Postdoctoral fellowship awards program inaugurated
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2005
- Grants and Awards Programs established
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2004
- The Biennial Gordon Research Conference Series, Molecular Mechanisms in Lymphatic Function and Disease established
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2003
- Lymphatic Research and Biology, an international peer-reviewed journal, has its first printing
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2002
- Congressional and National Institutes of Health (NIH) support for lymphatic research and lymphatic diseases secured
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1998
- LE&RN is founded under the name Lymphatic Research Foundation to promote research, treatments and cures