The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on fighting pulmonary fibrosis (PF). But how did it all start? The brothers Albert Rose and Michael Rosenzweigh, PhD, watched their sister suffer from the rare lung condition, and they ended up being diagnosed with it as well,…
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation History: Who Were the Rosenzweig Brothers?
https://vimeo.com/169933079 Pulmonary fibrosis is a disease in which tissue deep in your lungs becomes thick and stiff, or scarred, over time. Most of the time, the cause of how it develops is unknown and in those cases, it’s called idiopathic (unknown cause) pulmonary fibrosis. In this video, shared by Institute of…
The Germany-based global pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim recently announced the establishment of a research alliance with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) to discover new targets for treating fibrotic diseases, such as chronic kidney disease (CKD), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The collaborative project, called Harvard Fibrosis Network, is…
1. Aoife Clancy Musician Aoife Clancy was famous for being a member of the band Cherish the Ladies. On September 6th, 2002, she lost her father to pulmonary fibrosis after a three-year struggle with the disease. Aoife and Bobby Clancy had a close relationship as he was the one that…
New York City-based Kadmon Corp., a biopharma focused on developing therapies for significant unmet medical needs, recently announced the start of the first dosing regimen in a patient in its Phase 2 clinical trial assessing the drug KD025, the company’s rho-associated coiled-coil kinase 2 (ROCK2) inhibitor, for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis…
Germany based Boehringer Ingelheim and France based Inventiva have announced a new multi-year research and drug discovery collaboration and licensing agreement. Under the agreement, Inventiva and Boehringer Ingelheim teams will work on validation of a new therapeutic concept to discover new medicines for treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other…
A recent study from Korea indicates that sublobar resection is less likely to result in death compared to a lobar resection for lung cancer patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The research report, “Clinical results of sublobar resection versus lobectomy or more extensive resection for lung cancer patients with…
Boehringer Ingelheim and Inventiva recently signed a new multi-year drug discovery and research partnership and licensing agreement. Research teams from both companies will jointly work to validate a new therapeutic concept with the purpose of finding novel therapies for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other fibrotic diseases. The…
There are many shared risk factors for the development of the lung diseases pulmonary fibrosis (PF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but researchers of the two chronic conditions usually focus on understanding each disease separately. New research has found evidence that there may be a common genetic predisposition for the development of…
1. Bill Bright William R. Bright, best known as Bill Bright, is the co-founder of the largest Christian ministry in the world, the Campus Crusade for Christ. In 2003, he died from complications related to pulmonary fibrosis, as announced on his website. 2. Boyd Bennett The…
