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MercurysBall2 ago

effrey Steiner, Tracy Lentnek and Larry Steiner attend SPRING AHEAD 2007, Evening to benefit the JEFFREY MODELL FOUNDATION Honoring PHILIP ALTHEIM at Cipriani 42nd Street on April 26, 2007 in New York City.

JEFFREY MODELL FOUNDATION

The Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF) is an international, non-profit, organization dedicated to helping individuals and family members affected by primary immunodeficiency disorders. The foundation is active in four main areas: research, physician and patient education, patient support, and public awareness of primary immune deficiency. The foundation provides funding of research fellowships and laboratory facilities; sponsors physician symposia in the United States, Canada, and Europe as well as grand rounds, seminars, and other educational activities for physicians; offers publications for both the lay and medical communities; and provides affected individuals with access to leading medical centers with departments of clinical immunology. The JMF also sponsors K.I.D.'s (Kids with Immunodeficiency) Days for affected children and their families; is engaged in ongoing education campaigns to promote awareness of primary immune deficiency (PI) in the general public; conducts advocacy on behalf of affected individuals; and is committed to ongoing biomedical research into primary immune deficiency.

http://www.info4pi.org/hq/our-story

To date, the Foundation has funded twenty-eight post-doctoral fellowships and four Jeffrey Modell Endowed Chairs in Pediatric Immunology Research. In addition, in 2007 the Jeffrey Modell Immunology Center was established at Harvard Medical School.

Over the past few years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Jeffrey Modell Foundation have collaborated to eradicate polio worldwide.

More than thirty years after its creation, the Jeffrey Modell Foundation continues its mission of hope, advocacy, and action by vigorously supporting physicians, researchers, and the ever-expanding global patient community - directing its efforts toward early diagnosis, meaningful treatments, equal access to care, and ultimately, cures for Primary Immunodeficiency. During our journey, we have had the privilege of working alongside many courageous and inspiring individuals, who have also created patient advocacy organizations in honor of or in memory of a child…specifically, the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF), SCID Angels for Life, Wiskott-Aldrich Foundation (WAS), Chronic Granulomatous Disease Foundation (CGD), the International Patient Organization for Primary Immunodeficiency (IPOPI), as well as all of the other dedicated patient organizations throughout the world. Together and united, we have shaped one strong message and one strong voice that will resonate for generations to come.

millennial_vulcan ago

So many Jeffreys; so little time..