ANRF News And Stories

Dr. Nigrovic Puts Research Into Practice | Living An Academic Career

10 Dec 2018

Posted at 07:57h in Autoimmune, Juvenile Arthritis, Juvenile Arthritis Research, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis Research by ANRF 1 Comment

Peter A. Nigrovic, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a practicing adult and pediatric rheumatologist and director of the Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness (CAPRI) at the Brigham and...

Creating New Partnerships | Health Research Alliance in North Carolina

10 Dec 2018

Posted at 05:22h in Arthritis News by ANRF 0 Comments

Dr. Nahle, ANRF Executive Director, participated in the two-day conference of Health Research Alliance (HRA), in Raleigh North Carolina. HRA is a collaborative member organization of non-profit research funders. It seeks to improve human health by maximizing the impact of biomedical research. At the 2018 meeting...

Sponsoring Promising Scientists at the Autumn Immunology Conference

09 Dec 2018

Posted at 14:11h in Arthritis News, Autoimmune, Autoimmune Research by ANRF 0 Comments

Held in Chicago, IL, the autumn Autoimmunology Conference 2018 was an opportunity for ANRF to foster one of their important objectives – the sponsorship and support of young innovative researchers. For more than four decades this conference has provided a collaborative platform that allows experienced...

Announcing the ANRF 2018 Awardees at an International Conference in Stockholm

07 Dec 2018

Posted at 14:11h in Arthritis News by ANRF 0 Comments

Dr. Nahle, ANRF Executive Director, gave a series of invited medical lectures in the cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden last October as part of a recent US and European presentation engagement. Meetings in Sweden were organized by RME, the largest Swedish Medical charity dedicated...

17 Valuable Lessons Arthritis Has Taught Us

21 Nov 2018

Posted at 15:24h in Arthritis Awareness, Cure Arthritis by ANRF 1 Comment

When you deal with the physical and emotional pain of arthritis, it can be difficult to look on the bright side of a negative situation. However, as with any journey, there are always lessons to be learned if you look hard enough. We asked the...

Blocking Inflammation in Juvenile Arthritis | Michael Waterfield

Scientist Looking To Block Inflammation In Juvenile Arthritis

17 Nov 2018

Posted at 09:48h in Autoimmune, Autoimmune Research, Juvenile Arthritis, Juvenile Arthritis Research by ANRF 0 Comments

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an inflammatory disorder that often begins with swollen, warm and painful joints. In patients with JIA, their joints tend to "flare" up with inflammation and then subside. These flares cause aching joints on one or both sides of the body....

The ANRF Chronicle | November 2018 Editorial Letter From Dr. Z

13 Nov 2018

Posted at 11:33h in The ANRF Chronicle by Zaher Nahle, PhD, MPA 0 Comments

Dear ANRF partner! The first issue of our e-newsletter, The ANRF Chronicle, is dedicated to the Foundation’s many award recipients. I want their faces to become familiar faces and their names to be household names for these are the change makers of tomorrow! Every year, we award...

$1.6 Million Awarded To Fund Cutting-Edge Arthritis Research

12 Nov 2018

Posted at 11:38h in Arthritis News by ANRF 3 Comments

Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF) is honored to announce it has awarded $1.6 million in arthritis research grants. The amount represents the largest commitment to arthritis research to date ensuring that ANRF maintains it's mission of funding research to cure arthritis. ANRF continues to fund...

All Smiles at the ANRF Social

26 Oct 2018

Posted at 15:06h in Arthritis News, Cure Arthritis by ANRF 4 Comments

The Foundation’s annual event at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) conference, ANRF Social, was held in Chicago on Monday October 22nd. Guests in attendance had the opportunity to meet key opinion leaders in Arthritis and Rheumatology research in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. A unique feature...

Pinpointing the Development of Osteoarthritis

28 Jun 2018

Posted at 12:45h in Cure Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Osteoarthritis Research by ANRF 0 Comments

An estimated 30 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis (OA), the leading cause of chronic disability in older adults. Nearly half of all adults over the age of 65 have been affected by the development of osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease. OA creates a painful inflammatory response...