2013 LRG Research Team Progress Report
Accomplishments—Recent Progress: 1. Using mouse models, successfully attacked GIST with antibodies, essentially telling immune system to eat the cancer cells.
Join Our Tissue Bank – Help the LRG Find A Cure
Join our Tissue Bank - Help the LRG in the search for a cure. Wildtype GIST tissue is needed for a current LRG Research Team project. If you or a loved one are a wildtype GIST patient, please help the LRG Research Team in its search for the cure by donating your tissue.
LRG Research Team holds quarterly meeting
The LRG Research Team recently held a teleconference that focused primarily on a study the team will collaborate on and intends to publish.
The patient’s dilemma: Where should I donate my GIST tissue?
The fact is GIST is a rare disease and as a result researchers simply do not have enough GIST tissue samples to do the research needed to find a cure. “Too many people are still [...]
LRG announces GIST Collaborative Tissue Bank initiative
Innovative project will allow GIST researchers worldwide to access GIST tissue linked to patient-provided clinical histories. For more information on the GIST Tissue bank read the official press release.
