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Search current and former Kenneth Rainin Foundation grantees in the Arts, Education and Health to learn more about what we fund.

Grantee Giving Area Program Grant Year Project Title Amount  
Cleveland Clinic Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Targeting the septin cytoskeleton as a novel mechanistic approach to therapy of fibrostenosing Crohn’s disease. $200,000
Cleveland Clinic Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 A Phase I clinical trial of targeted endoscopic delivery of allogeneic bone marrow derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the treatment of medically refractory Crohn’s colitis. $200,000
Cleveland Clinic Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Virus-induced alteration of intestinal motility as a predisposing factor for IBD. $200,000
Fiedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Label-free digital pathology and spatially resolved transcriptomics for the identification of novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets in inflammatory bowel diseases. $300,000
Hadassah Medical Center Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Milk derived exosomes (MDE) as a therapeutic modality in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). $300,000
Massachusetts General Hospital Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Revealing a direct immunomodulatory role for bacteriophages to mitigate intestinal inflammation. $150,000
Mount Sinai Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 The impact of dietary protein and fiber content on intestinal permeability and inflammation in moderate ulcerative colitis and healthy control. $300,000
Rockefeller University Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Mechanistic analysis of NOD2 interactions with commensal bacteria muropeptides in Crohn’s disease. $200,000
Stanford University Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Precision medicine to enable personalized therapy in IBD via biomarker analysis using CyTOF and multiplexed ion beam imaging. $200,000
University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 An IBD peptide immunochip for diagnosis, prognosis and immune monitoring in Crohn’s disease. $150,000
University of California, San Diego Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Elucidating molecular heterogeneity and new therapeutic targets for IBD using an innovative single-cell sequencing approach. $200,000
University of Michigan Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Dietary amino acid utilization by the gut microbiota in Crohn’s disease. $200,000
Washington University in St. Louis Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Human and experimental animal studies to identify mechanisms governing lymph transport in Crohn’s disease. $300,000
Weill Cornell Medicine Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2020 Cell-free DNA as a non-invasive test of bacterial translocation, ileal inflammation and extra-intestinal Crohn’s disease. $200,000
A site specific dance in Bayview-Hunter’s Point where three dancers are on top of a roof and one dancer is dancing on a wooden block with a briefcase.

Arts

Our Arts Program funds dance, film, public space and theater projects that highlight important issues facing our society and local communities.

A young Black girl smiling while she looks down at an open book, reading.

Education

Our Education Program supports schools and community-based organizations that help Oakland’s children develop literacy and social emotional skills.

A female scientist in the lab looking into a microscope.

Health

Our Health Program invests early in novel approaches and collaborations to advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease research.