Feb 22, 2021   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Job Research Foundation Announces 2021 Grant Recipients; Funding will Support Research into the Causes of and Treatments for Job Syndrome

NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Job Research Foundation has announced the recipients of its third round of grant funding to support investigation into the causes of and treatments for Job Syndrome. The Foundation has awarded two-year grants of $200,000 each to support two research projects. To date the organization has funded a total of ten research projects across the world. This year's recipients are: 

    --  Mark Gorelik, MD, Assistant Professor Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and
        Rheumatology, Columbia University Vagelos School of Medicine for
        research into "The role of fibroblast specific STAT3 expression in
        pneumatocele development and gastrointestinal perforation in AD-HIES."
        (USA)
    --  Toni Cathomen, PhD, Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy, and Bodo
        Grimbacher, MD, Professor of Experimental Immunodeficiency, Medical
        Center - University of Freiburg, for research into "Treating
        Hyper-IgE-Syndrome by genome editing in CD34+ hematopoietic stem and
        progenitor cells." (Germany)

Previous recipients:

    --  Dr. Ellen D. Renner, Translational Immunology in Environmental Medicine
        - TU Munich and Helmholtz Zentrum München, (Germany).
    --  Professor Stuart Tangye, Head, Immunology & Immunodeficiency Lab, Garvan
        Institute of Medical Research (Australia)
    --  Dr. Bertrand Boisson, PhD, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of
        Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University (USA)
    --  Dr. Peter Olbrich, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator/Pediatric Infectious
        Diseases and Immunodeficiency Unit, and Dr. Olaf Neth MD, PhD, Principal
        Investigator and Head of Department/Pediatric Infectious Diseases and
        Immunodeficiency Unit; Pediatric Infectious Diseases and
        Immunodeficiency Unit, Hospital Infantil Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla
        (Spain)
    --  Andrew Gennery, MD, Professor in Paediatric Immunology and
        Haematopoietic Stem Cell Therapies University of Newcastle upon
        Tyne/Great North Children's Hospital (United Kingdom)
    --  Vera P. Krymskaya, PhD, MBA, FCPP, Professor of Medicine, University of
        Pennsylvania (USA)
    --  Hongmei Mou, PhD. Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General
        Hospital/Harvard Medical School (USA)
    --  Scott B. Snapper, MD, PhD, Wolpow Family Chair & Director, IBD Center;
        Professor of Pediatrics, HMS, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical
        School (USA)

Job Research Foundation seeks to not only help find a cure for Job Syndrome by providing the scientific community with additional opportunities to further research into the rare multisystem immunodeficiency disorder, but also hopes that investigators will research treatments to help those suffering with Job Syndrome. Job Syndrome, also known as Autosomal Dominant Hyperimmunoglobulin E Syndrome (AD-HIES), was discovered in 1966 and is a multi-system immunodeficiency disorder found in males and females worldwide. Visit https://www.jobresearchfoundation.org/ for additional details.

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