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    JNF AWARDS THREE SEED GRANTS AT 2016 SNIS ANNUAL MEETING

    The Joe Niekro Foundation was pleased to award $60,000 in research seed grants at the 2016 SNIS Annual Meeting in Boston this July. Among a pool of thirteen amazing applications, the Grants Review Board selected three to each receive a $20,000 seed grant that advances the study of brain aneurysms or brain arteriovenous malformations. The […]

    Posted on Monday, August 1, 2016
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    JNF Awards $90,000 in Research Grants

    The Joe Niekro Foundation has announced the 2014 Joe Niekro Research Grant recipients.  A total of $90,000 has been awarded by the foundation, which is committed to supporting patients and families, research, treatment and awareness of brain aneurysms, AVMs and hemorrhagic strokes.  “We are thrilled to award these recipients with this critical funding needed to […]

    Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015
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    Groundbreaking Study Confirms That Neurointerventional Surgery Provides Significant Clinical Benefit

    Study is most significant stroke treatment clinical trial since NINDS-2 says Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery WASHINGTON, DC – December 17, 2014 – A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms that the addition of inside-the-artery clot removal is more effective than IV-administered “clot-busting” tissue plasminogen activator (IV-tPA) therapy alone for the […]

    Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2014
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    What Went on in My Head???

    by: Dr. Michael Chen – JNF Medical Advisory Board Member It is hard to know for sure how people will do after they survive a ruptured brain aneurysm.  I’ve seen some patients do amazingly well, and are essentially back to normal.  I’ve seen others who need to stay in nursing homes and cannot take care […]

    Posted on Friday, December 12, 2014
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    Joe Niekro Research Grant Awarded

    The Joe Niekro Foundation is proud to announce the winner of the 1st Joe Niekro Research Grant, Lissa Peeling.  Lissa’s study, Assessment of a novel in vitro approach to evaluate flow dynamics of porcine red blood cells within a side-wall aneurysm model using synchrotron X-ray particle image velocimetry, awarded her a $20,000 grant which was […]

    Posted on Monday, September 29, 2014
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