2003 IPF News and Announcements

12/18/03 - FibroGen Initiates Open-Label, Phase 1 Clinical Trial of FG-3019 in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

12/16/03 - A Year of Great Accomplishments for the CPF

12/16/03 - InterMune Initiates Pivotal Phase III Clinical Trial of Actimmune For Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

11/03/03 - NIH Establishes Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network

10/15/03 - Coalition For Pulmonary Fibrosis Successfully Leads First National Advocacy Effort on Behalf of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients

09/04/03 - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to Host Living with PF Patient Seminar October 18, 2003

08/25/03 - Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Diseases at UPMC Receives $2 Million Grant to Study the Genomics of IPF

08/25/03 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Launches National Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Awareness Week October 5-11, 2003

08/07/03 - CPF Partners with Actelion, Ltd. to Advance Patient Recruitment for BUILD 1 Clinical Trial in IPF

06/27/03- IPF Patient Gerald Wolf and Marilyn Glassberg, MD Profiled on NBC WTJV- Miami |fast connection

05/16/03 - CPF Receives $60,000 Private Restricted Contribution to Advance Patient Education Initiatives

05/09/03 - InterMune Announces Results From Phase II Trial of Pirfenidone for Pulmonary Fibrosis

04/24/03 - The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Launches a New Advocacy Campaign to Bring Attention to Rare Lung Disease

04/14/03 - CPF-Funded Monograph Published in April, 2003 American Journal of Nursing

03/31/03 - CPF Partners with Second Wind Lung Transplant Association to Expand IPF Patient Education Initiatives

03/24/03 - CPF to Host "Living with IPF" Educational Seminar at the University of Alabama in Birmingham

03/03/03 - CPF Launches IPF Awareness Campaign in Select Medical Journals

02/04/03 - InterMune Provides Update on IPF Development Programs

01/28/03 - Quequechan Club Event Raises $11,000 for Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis

01/16/03 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Partners with Caring Voice Coalition to Advance Nationwide IPF Education, Awareness, and Advocacy

01/06/03 - InterMune Announces Preliminary Survival Data from the Follow-Up Observation Period of Its Phase III IPF Study

01/01/03 - IPF Patient and Marquette Univ. Assistant Basketball Coach Trey Schwab Profiled on ESPN, January, 2003 |fast connection| slow connection |