Funded Research

Since its founding, the ITP Foundation has been dedicated to supporting therapeutic and medical breakthroughs in treating ITP.  It is imperative that the effects of ITP be felt and empathized with in homes throughout the country, and the world.   

Medical Research

The ITP Foundation's Medical Advisory Panel is currently considering studies being conducted in 2009, and what relevant medical research to support in the year ahead.

The ITP Foundation is proud to have participated in the following recent studies. 


2008

ITP Foundation fulfills $50,000 grant to the ICIS's research at the University Children's Hospital in Basel, Switzerland

Download the publication from Pediatric Blood & Cancer:

Predisposing and Modulating Genetic Factors in Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

A study being conducted at the Children's Hospital in Basel, Switzerland that has thus far exhibited the likely existence of a genetic susceptibility for ITP.


 

2007

ITP Foundation grants $25,000 to the ICIS's research at the University Children's Hospital in Basel, Switzerland

Download the publication from Pediatric Blood & Cancer:

Evan's Syndrome and Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in Families

 

Download the publication from Pediatric Blood & Cancer:

Celiacs Disease Is Not a Major Risk Factor for the Development of Childhood ITP


2004

ITP Foundation grants $75,000 to the PARC-ITP Study

Download the publication from Pediatric Blood & Cancer:

Pediatric and Adult Intercontinental Registry of Chronic ITP (PARC-ITP Study)

The database will serve as the main part of the study with the potential to add subsequent studies as modules.

 



 

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