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The Danette Anderson Research Grant has been announced! The Vasculitis Foundation (formerly Wegener's Granulomatosis Association) announced at the Sept. 11, 2005 North Carolina Fundraiser that there has been a Research Grant named in honor of Danette Anderson.
This research grant will study Renal transplantation in Wegener's granulomatosis: mortality, allograft outcomes, and incidence of malignancies from the United network for Organ Sharing database 1988-2005. The principal investigator in this grant will be Nadine D. Tanenbaum, MD: Fellow in Nephrology. The institution conducting this study will be the School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
From the 9-20-05 edition of the Burlington Times-News, reprinted with permission:
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Medical grant honors Alamance County woman
Danette Anderson has raised $40K to fight rare disease
By Jim Wicker Times-News
GRAHAM — A study grant awarded to the School of Medicine at Duke University in Durham has been named in honor of Danette Anderson, a southern Alamance County woman who has organized and coordinated four successful fundraisers in her battle against a rare disease.
Officials of the Wegener’s Granulomatosis Association, which has received the $40,000 raised locally in four annual “North Carolina Fun Ride for Wegener’s" fundraisers, have announced that a new study selected for funding has been named for Anderson, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1997.
The Danette Anderson Grant will help finance a study at Duke dealing with identifying risk factors related to transplants because of the disease According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Wegener’s is “an uncommon disease in which the blood vessels are inflamed. The inflammation damages important organs of the body by limiting blood flow to the organs and destroying normal tissue.�? A statement by the Wegener’s association revealed that Dr. Nadine D. Tannenbaum, a fellow in nephrology at the Duke University School of Medicine, will be the principal investigator for the study financed by the new grant.
Anderson said Monday that she was honored to learn that the grant has been named for her. She said her efforts to raise funds for research have been with hope that the result will be a cure for the disease.
The four fundraisers coordinated by Anderson and her family and friends have been increasingly successful. When the 2005 ride was held on Sept. 11, 186 motorcyclists and 56 riders from across North Carolina and from other states participated, she said.
“Each year since we began in 2002, the event has grown with larger numbers of riders and supporters, Anderson said, explaining that besides her many friends, her husband, Randy Anderson, daughter, Kimberly Anderson; her parents, Danner and Shirley Ferguson, and brothers Craig and Jay Ferguson have been major supporters.
Jim Wicker can be reached at jim_wicker@link.freedom.com
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Posted by Craig on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 (10:13:11) (1303 reads)
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