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 2011/2012 Funding Status
- LLHF is pleased to continue supporting the many extraordinary research scientists in the State of California through previously funded 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
- UCLA Newsroom: "Researchers discover mechanism that could convert certain cells into insulin-making cells"
- Scientists from the Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center believe that they may have discovered the underlying mechanism that could covert other cell types into pancreatic beta cells.
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- ABC News-(KGO-TV in San Francisco): "Lab compound could help fight age-related diseases"
- Gordon Lithgow, PhD, Director of the Larry L. Hillblom Center for Integrative Studies of Aging at the Buck Institute and current LLHF network grantee, discusses his active research that explains how a common laboratory dye, Basic Yellow 1, slows Alzheimer's disease-like pathology in worms.
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Events & Deadlines
- The 2011 Larry L. Hillblom Foundation 10th Annual Scientific Sessions
- 2011-10-17
- The LLHF 10th Annual Scientific Sessions will take place in Petaluma, CA on October 17th & 18th, 2011.
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- New Application Submission for 2012 Funding
- 2011-12-01
- The LLHF will begin to accept new applications for Start-Up and Fellowship grants on December 1, 2011.
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