Grantee | Giving Area | Program | Grant Year | Project Title | Amount | |
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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 |
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Arts
Our Arts Program funds dance, film, public space and theater projects that highlight important issues facing our society and local communities.
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Education
Our Education Program supports schools and community-based organizations that help Oakland’s children develop literacy and social emotional skills.
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Health
Our Health Program invests early in novel approaches and collaborations to advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease research.