Causes: Health, Medical Research
Mission: LE&RN's mission is to fight lymphatic diseases through education, research, and advocacy. We seek to accelerate the prevention, treatments and cures for lymphedema (LE), lipedema (LI), lymphatic anomalies, and the continuum of lymphatic diseases (LC).
Results: LE&RN is at the forefront of raising awareness of lymphatic disease and lymphedema. Founded in 1998 as the Lymphatic Research Foundation, LE&RN provides annual grants to Research Fellows at the world’s leading universities, putting lymphatic diseases on the radar in the medical community, in academia, in government, and with pharmaceutical companies. Through LE&RN’s education programs, such as our popular Medical Symposium Series, medical practitioners, therapists, patients, and family members can benefit from hearing presentations given by the world’s leading lymphatic and lymphedema experts. LE&RN’s Patient Registry and Tissue Bank provides researchers with access to information about those afflicted with these diseases and can provide tissue samples from lymphatic disease patients to further research discoveries in the field. The quarterly journal Lymphatic Research and Biology delivers the latest developments and advancements in lymphatic biology and pathology from the world’s leading biomedical investigators. Through events such as the annual Walk for Lymphedema & Lymphatic Diseases and through advocacy efforts such as fighting for passage of the Lymphedema Treatment Act, LE&RN is building an extensive network of people looking for answers, demanding better treatment options, and, ultimately, finding a cure so that no one will have to suffer with lymphedema and other lymphatic disorders.
Target demographics: fight lymphatic diseases (LD)
Direct beneficiaries per year: fund researchers worldwide, and brought our educational symposiums to tens of thousands.
Geographic areas served: the United States and internationally
Programs: research, education and advocacy. We seek to accelerate the prevention, treatment and cure of the disease while bringing patients and medical professionals together to address the unmet needs surrounding lymphatic diseases.
Mission: LE&RN's mission is to fight lymphatic diseases through education, research, and advocacy. We seek to accelerate the prevention, treatments and cures for lymphedema (LE), lipedema (LI), lymphatic anomalies, and the continuum of lymphatic diseases (LC).
Results: LE&RN is at the forefront of raising awareness of lymphatic disease and lymphedema. Founded in 1998 as the Lymphatic Research Foundation, LE&RN provides annual grants to Research Fellows at the world’s leading universities, putting lymphatic diseases on the radar in the medical community, in academia, in government, and with pharmaceutical companies. Through LE&RN’s education programs, such as our popular Medical Symposium Series, medical practitioners, therapists, patients, and family members can benefit from hearing presentations given by the world’s leading lymphatic and lymphedema experts. LE&RN’s Patient Registry and Tissue Bank provides researchers with access to information about those afflicted with these diseases and can provide tissue samples from lymphatic disease patients to further research discoveries in the field. The quarterly journal Lymphatic Research and Biology delivers the latest developments and advancements in lymphatic biology and pathology from the world’s leading biomedical investigators. Through events such as the annual Walk for Lymphedema & Lymphatic Diseases and through advocacy efforts such as fighting for passage of the Lymphedema Treatment Act, LE&RN is building an extensive network of people looking for answers, demanding better treatment options, and, ultimately, finding a cure so that no one will have to suffer with lymphedema and other lymphatic disorders.
Target demographics: fight lymphatic diseases (LD)
Direct beneficiaries per year: fund researchers worldwide, and brought our educational symposiums to tens of thousands.
Geographic areas served: the United States and internationally
Programs: research, education and advocacy. We seek to accelerate the prevention, treatment and cure of the disease while bringing patients and medical professionals together to address the unmet needs surrounding lymphatic diseases.
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