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The Myocarditis Foundation awarded a Research Fellowship Grant to Dr. Silvio Antoniak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in 2009. Since then, Dr. Anotniak has made significant strides in his research and has had several publications related to his research. The most recent accomplishment of Dr. Antoniak’s is his work on [...]
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The Myocarditis Foundation Announces the Receipt of Grant from the Enterprise Holdings Foundation The Myocarditis Foundation, an international non-profit organization, is honored to announce that it has received a grant in the amount of $1,500 from the Enterprise Holdings Foundation. The Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the company that operates the Enterprise [...]
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As of January 1st, 2013 the Myocarditis Foundation will have a new address of: 100 W Main St Utica, MN 55979 This is the official mailing address and physical location for the Myocarditis Foundation. Please be sure to mail all donations or other mail to this address, as our previous address will no longer serve [...]
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The Myocarditis Foundation would like to thank all of our families, friends, researchers, clinicians, professionals, and staff who helped to make our 2012 such a successful year. The Myocarditis had the following successes in 2012, all thanks to our wonderful supporters: Awarded two research fellowship grants Held our first Myocarditis Foundation Research Event in Chicago, [...]
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The Myocarditis Foundation is happy to announce that Dr. Silvio Antoniak, on of our research grant recipients, is a finalist for this year’s American Heart Association’s Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology’s (ATVB) 2012 ATVB Early Career Investigator Award. The final round will be at the AHA Scientific Sessions in Los Angeles. Dr. Antoniak [...]
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The Myocarditis Foundation was asked to attend and provide support as a patron of Dr. Bernhard Maisch’s Symposium of Inflammatory Heart Disease in Marburg, Germany. Dr. Leslie Cooper, president of the Myocarditis Foundation, was a guest speaker as well as many world-renowned physicians from around the globe. It was a wonderful opportunity for this group [...]
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By Timothy M. Kennedy WEST SENECA, N.Y. – Luke Gould, a 10-year-old West Seneca boy, passed away unexpectedly November 16, 2011. An active, healthy young athlete, Luke lost his life to an unpredictable heart condition known as myocarditis – which often leads to sudden death. After his death, the medical examiner could not easily determine [...]
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The Myocarditis Foundation is proud to announce that it will designate a research fellowship grant in the 2013/14 season in honor of Joseph Rumore Sr. of Parsippany, New Jersey, for his consistent and tireless efforts to raise funds for the Myocarditis Foundation over the past five years through his successful annual golf tournament. Mr. Rumore, [...]
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The Myocarditis Foundation, an international non-profit organization located in Point Pleasant, NJ, founded in 2005, is dedicated to increasing awareness and hastening progress in understanding this rare disease. Myocarditis is a disease that is marked by inflammation and scarring of the heart muscle which can progress rapidly to heart failure, and death or heart transplantation. [...]
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Awarded grant in 2012 Identifying Antiviral Agents to Treat Coxsackievirus Myocarditis “In support of a long-term goal of identifying potent and tolerable antiviral drugs to prevent enteroviral myocarditis, our project has the following 3 goals: To identify the compounds which most actively inhibit coxsackievirus replication in tissue culture cells To identify the mechanism of action [...]
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