On September 17, 2016, NYS Chapter Chair Jennifer Looby addressed the crowd before the 7th annual New York Walk to Fight Lymphedema & Lymphatic Diseases. Watch the full speech above. A transcipt appears below.

Hello. First, I want to thank all of you for being here today and supporting an

Antoine Louveau, Ph.D., a LE&RN Postdoctoral Fellowship Award winner and a LE&RN Travel Award winner, recently co-authored two articles on lymphatics.

"How Do Meningeal Lymphatic Vessels Drain the CNS?," Trends in Neurosciences, September 2016, Vol. 39, No. 9

"Lymphatics in Neurological

Echoe Bouta, Ph.D., at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical school under the supervision of Timothy Padera, Ph.D., is a LE&RN/FDRS Research Fellowship Award recipient. We asked Dr. Bouta to tell us more about her research.

What is the focus of your research?
Lipedema is a

Esak Lee, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, under the supervision of Dr. Christopher S. Chen and Dr. Donald E. Ingber received a LE&RN research fellowship in 2016. We asked Dr. Lee to tell us more about

2016 Travel Award winners

Jeremiah Bernier-Latmani
Hung M. Bui
Reema Davis
Maike Frye
René Hägerling
Li-Hao “Paul” Huang
Xiaolei Liu
Antoine Louveau
Cathy Pichol-Thievend
Brian Saunders

by Jennifer Vitale

My mother, Linda Vitale, was a primary lymphedema patient. For years she struggled with this disease and didn’t even know she had a disease. Her doctors always said she was just extremely heavy. When her legs started leaking fluid, she was told it was a calcium build up

Catherine Tucher (pictured above and below) wrote the following on LE&RN's Facebook page after reading "Fighting a Lymphedemic -- Cancer and Beyond," by William Repicci (LE&RN Executive Director), Epameinondas Gousopoulos (LE&RN European Chapter Chair), and Kathy Bates (LE&RN Spokesperson).

Brian Saunders, currently a post-baccalaureate student in the department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis, under the supervision of Bernd Zinselmeyer PhD received support from LE&RN to present at the American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting on May

Jorge A. Castorena, currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Department of the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO, USA), under the supervision of Dr. Michael J. Davis, received a travel award from LE&RN to attend the 2016 Gordon Research Conference in

René Hägerling, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Muenster, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Kiefer, received a travel award from LE&RN to attend the 2016 Gordon Research Conference in Lymphatics held in Ventura,