The Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
The Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
The Larry L. Hillblom Foundation is a California non-profit public benefit corporation funded through a bequest from Larry L. Hillblom, a respected international businessman who was one of the three founders of DHL Worldwide Express.
By virtue of Mr. Hillblom’s will, substantially all of the Foundation’s funding should be used to support medical research with particular attention to research programs conducted by the University of California in the areas of diabetes mellitus and diseases associated with aging.
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News & Announcements
- Year 2013 Funding Status
- LLHF is pleased to continue supporting the many extraordinary research scientists in the State of California through its multi-year grant awards.
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- The LLHF Recognizes its 2011 Distinguished Research Scientists
- 2011 Awards announced for the Diabetes and Aging funding categories.
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Research Updates
- UCSF News Center: "New Dementia Diagnostic Exams and Gene Findings Bode Well for Treatment"
- Dr. Bruce Miller, the director of the UCSF Memory & Aging Center and a LLHF Network Grantee, describes advances in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) research and the ability to diagnose dementia more accurately through improvements in behavioral assessment tools, imaging techniques, and gene testing.
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- Rady Children's Specialists: "Dr. Alberto Hayek Discusses Stem Cell Research for Diabetes"
- Alberto Hayek, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist, the co-director of the Pediatric Diabetes Research Center (PDRC) as well as a LLHF Network Grantee discusses, in an online interview, the potential for stem cells to become insulin-producing cells.
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- Buck Institute: "Global Leader in Revolutionary Stem Cell Technology"
- Associate Professor, Xianmin Zeng PhD, from the Buck Institute and a LLHF Grant recipient has developed new stem cell therapy for Parkinson's Disease which provides a method to reproduce the required amount of clinical grade neurons essential for human trials. She also confirmed this technique could be created in a good manufacturing practice facility which is necessary for clinical trials.
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Events & Deadlines
- The 2013 Larry L. Hillblom Foundation 12th Annual Scientific Sessions
- 2013-10-28
- The LLHF 12th Annual Scientific Sessions will take place in Monterey, CA on October 28, 2013.
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