CF Requests Applications for 2013 Research Seed Grants
Over the past several years, interest in chordoma has grown and numerous new investigators have ventured into chordoma research. During … Continue reading
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Two More Hospitals Partner with Chordoma Foundation Biobank
The University of Pittsburgh and Dignity Health’s Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center are the latest … Continue reading
Chordoma Research Community Is Increasingly Interconnected
In the year following the Third International Chordoma Research Workshop, participants formed 30 new collaborations (thick lines) and 174 new … Continue reading
Test available for genetic predisposition to chordoma
Scientists working on the Chordoma Genome Project have identified a genetic variant (a SNP) that causes a five-fold increase in … Continue reading
CF Welcomes Renowned Neurosurgeon to the Board of Directors
The Chordoma Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Chandra Sen has joined the Foundation’s Board of Directors. A professor … Continue reading
CF seed grant leverages developmental biology breakthrough
Recently, Dr. Cheryle Séguin, a musculoskeletal researcher at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, who studies spinal … Continue reading
CF holds first chordoma patient and physician meetings in Europe
Since 2007, the Chordoma Foundation has been working from the US to improve the lives of chordoma patients across the … Continue reading
$200K fundraising challenge met, drug screening beings
In January of this year, we were presented with an enormous opportunity. National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers had identified … Continue reading
Families raise funds in their children’s honor to advance chordoma research
Two families who know all too well what it is like to lose a child to chordoma are doing what … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal recognizes CF cell line prize as a model for stimulating research
The Chordoma Foundation has awarded a $10,000 prize to Dr. Beate Rinner at the Medical University of Graz in Austria … Continue reading