GIST Awareness Day 2020 – India
Friends of Max (FOM), led by Viji Venkatesh, enthusiastically celebrated GIST Awareness Day 2020 with a plethora of posts and patient stories as well as patient meetings.
Virtual Life Fest 2020: Life Raft Group Cookbook Launch
Chefs Rosemary & Drew Gabbe of The Fruited Plain in Parsippany, NJ, demonstrated how to cook LRG member Rob Taylor’s Happy Shrimp.
Virtual Life Fest 2020: GIST 101: The Biology of GIST
Dr. David Josephy, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Guelph,Canada, and President of GIST Sarcoma Life Raft Group Canada presented GIST 101 during Virtual Life Fest 2020.
Virtual Life Fest 2020: GIST Research Panel
GIST experts provided updates and answered questions on GIST research and new GIST therapies.
Virtual Life Fest 2020: GIST Oncologist Panel
Oncology and surgical GIST experts shared the latest trends, insights and surgical options in GIST, and then answered questions.
Welcome to Virtual Life Fest 2020
Even though we weren’t together physically for our biennial Life Fest celebration, we united to spread a message of hope and positive messages while raising GIST awareness across the globe.
Virtual Life Fest 2020: GIST Do It Walk
As part of our Virtual Life Fest celebration, we hosted a Virtual GIST Do It Walk on Sunday, July 12, 2020. The walk was held in memory of Ted Wolf, who lost his battle with GIST in 2018.
Blueprint & Deciphera Celebrate GIST Awareness Day 2020 – Galleries
Blueprint Medicines and Deciphera Pharmaceuticals celebrated GIST Awareness Day (GAD), July 13th, 2020, with Virtual Walks across the U.S. This year's GIST Awareness Day theme was #GISTHope.
RARE Partnership in Advocacy, Funding, and Research for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
Partnerships and collaborations are critical to the progress of research in rare diseases. GIST specialist & Pediatric & SDH-Deficient GIST Consortium member, Dr. Jason Sicklick, and LRG member, Debra Melikian, are working together find a cure for succinate dehydrogenase-deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumors (SDH-deficient GIST), a hereditary rare cancer syndrome which claimed the lives of Debra’s husband and her son Merak.
GIST Awareness Day 2020
GIST Awareness Day, July 13th, 2020 All GIST Awareness Day Celebrations for 2020: Spain Colombia WolfStrong Team U.S. Mexico UK (Britian) Chile India Hungary Pharma The theme of GAD was #GISTHope. 2020 brought a [...]