Javier Jaldin-Fincati, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Amira Klip, was awarded with a LE&RN/FDRS Lipedema Postdoctoral Fellowship in December 2015. We asked him to tell LE&RN supporters about his research.
What
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pictured above: Zachary Berger (right) with his dad Marc Berger at the 2015 Texas Walk to Fight Lymphedema & Lymphatic Diseases in Plano, TX.
My Story, by Zachary Berger
There is no way I would be who I am today without my tongue. I guess that is the case for most people, but for me, I was
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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
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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
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Antoine Louveau, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center of Brain Immunology and Glia, in the Neuroscience department of the University of Virginia, VA, under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Kipnis, is a LE&RN Research Fellowship Award recipient. We asked Dr. Louveau to tell us about his
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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
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Elite Rehabilitation Solutions is offering a course for rehabilitation with reference to breast cancer. This course is designed with 2 days onsite lecture/lab and 8.5 hours of on line learning. This course is designed to provide participants with the latest evidence and research to
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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
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