We are sharing this research opportunity on behalf of Evidera, an independent healthcare research company, on a study examining side effects associated with steroid medications. Evidera’s team is hoping to gain more insight into these side effects and how they impact one’s quality of life by conducting one-on-one interviews with individuals with CIDP, who have…
In 2016 The GBS|CIDP Foundation awarded a research grant to Eduardo Nobile-Orazio, MD, PhD, FAAN, Professor of Neurology Neuromuscular and Neuroimmunology Service at Milan University. Dr. Nobile-Orazio’s 2016 study titled: An Italian Multicenter Network for the diagnosis and therapy of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and of its variants, contributed to the 2019 article: Risk factors for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP): antecedent events, lifestyle and dietary habits. Data from the Italian CIDP Database., published by the EAN (European Academy of Neurology). Update: GBS|CIDP Foundation Research 2016 Grant Recipient, Dr. Eduardo Nobil-Orazio, published in Journal of Neurology, Journal of Neuroimmunology, and Wiley Online Library, and EAN.
As part of the GBS|CIDP Foundation International’s mission to provide education and support research, we offer research grants to qualified applicants.
Congressional Recess officially ended on September 9th, and the Northeast is already seeing leaves fall from the trees (no color change, yet). Now that Washington, D.C. is back to being fully operational, we have a lot of great things to report on! Check out our highlights below, and stay up to date with all things…
By Jeffrey A. Allen, MDMember, GBS|CIDP Foundation Global Medical Advisory Board CIDP as a named disease entity is now about 4 decades old. The laboratory data that helps define the disease, nerve conduction studies and in some cases cerebral spinal fluid and nerve biopsy, is even older; and the initial description of what has now…
We are pleased to announce our 2018 Research Grant Awardees.
On June 10, 2018 the GBS|CIDP Foundation International will be holding its 5th Annual New Jersey Walk & Roll. The event will be chaired by local resident, and Foundation volunteer, Susan Salzmann. Recently we had the pleasure of sitting down with Susan as she shared the complex story of her husband’s personal journey with CIDP….
(#1) Title of the project: Enhance Peripheral Nerve Repair by Modulating Macrophage Subsets Investigator: Gang Zhang, M.D; Ph.D Assistant Professor of Neurology University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston Synopsis: Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is now the first-line therapy for Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). However, there are many disadvantages including high cost, supply shortages, and multiple side effects…
In 2008 the GBS|CIDP Foundation awarded a $60,000 to Ingemar S. J. Merkies, MD, PHD Universiteit Maastricht(The Netherlands), Professor Pieter A. van Doorn (GMAB member) Erasmus MC (The Netherlands) and Richard A. Lewis, MD (GMAB member), Cedars Sinai, for their study in Peripheral Neuropathy Outcome Measures Standardisation (PeriNomS). On February 20, 2018 a paper was…