2006 IPF News and Announcements

12/12/06 - CPF and University of Chicago Featured on Nationally Syndicated Radio Health Journal

11/20/06 - CPF Publishes 4th Quarter 2006 Action Alert Newsletter .pdf

11/09/06 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Breathing is Glorious! (B.I.G.) Gala Raises More Than $250,000 for IPF

10/20/06 - Organ Donation Champion to be Honored by CPF at Breathing is Glorious (B.I.G.) Fundraising Gala

10/10/06 - CPF Concludes Successful National IPF Awareness Week in Washington

10/10/06 - Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease to Explore New Approaches to Understanding and Treating Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis as part of $12.8 million NIH grant

10/05/06 - Pulmonary Fibrosis Prevalence Increases 156 Percent in Six Years

10/03/06 - Novartis Warns US Doctors on Gleevec Heart Risks

09/24/06 - Lung Patients See a New Era of Transplants

09/18/06 - CPF to Host Patient Seminars in San Francisco, Calif. (Nov. 4th) and Los Angeles Calif. (Dec. 1st)

09/17/06 - CPF's Teresa Geiger and Family Profiled in Fayetteville Observer

08/30/06 - CPF Publishes 3rd Quarter, 2006 Member Newsletter .pdf | .doc

08/30/06 - Interferon Gamma Therapy May Be an Important Advance in IPF Treatment

08/23/06 - CPF Announces 2006 National IPF Awareness Week Activities For Week of September 25 – October 1

08/01/06 - Lung Ailments No Longer Standing in Way of Flight

07/10/06 - Amarillo Seeks FDA Approval for IPF Clinical Trial

07/10/06 - NIH, NHLBI Establish New IPF Research Network

06/30/06 - Long Negotiations Lead to Senate Considering a Trio of Stem Cell Research Bills

06/15/06 - CPF Announces Second Annual Breathing Is Glorious! (B.I.G.) Fundraising Gala

06/15/06 - CPF Publishes 2nd Quarter, 2006 Member Newsletter .pdf | .doc

06/14/06 - Tulane receives four year, $1.5 million grant from NIH to Study Role of Virus in Lung Disease

05/31/06 - CPF Appoints Mishka Michon Executive Vice President for Development

05/28/06 - Actelion Presents Strong Rationale for a Morbidity/Mortality Study with Bosentan in IPF at American Thoracic Society Meeting

05/26/06 - University of Michigan Study Targets Key Cells and Signals That May Trigger IPF

05/16/06 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Partners with American Thoracic Society to Jointly Fund $100,000 IPF Research Grant

05/01/06 - IPF Patient Symposia Draw 250 Patients from 10 states, Feature Top Lung Disease Experts

04/27/06 - InterMune Initiates Phase III Clinical Trial of Pirfenidone for Patients With IPF

04/26/06 - CPF Partners with University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Lung Disease to Host Patient Symposium and Fundraising Dinner June 2-3, 2006

04/20/06 - InterMune Completes Enrollment of the Phase III INSPIRE Trial of Interferon Gamma 1-b

04/14/06 - CPF Publishes 1st Quarter, 2006 Member Newsletter .pdf | .doc

03/15/06 - Lung Transplant Survival Improving: More Than 63% Survive for at Least 3 Years, Experts Report

03/07/06 - CPF to Co-Host Living with IPF Patient Event in Miami, Florida April 23, 2006

02/28/06 - Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis Provides $43,000 Gift to The University of Chicago to Advance New Approaches to Understanding IPF

02/17/06 - CPF to Host Living with IPF Patient Symposium in Sacramento, CA Saturday, April 22, 2006

02/13/06 - NIH, NHLBI Host Public Interest Organization Conference; Institutes Provide Update on IPF Research Efforts

02/07/06 - Proposed Legislation Would Affect IPF Patients’ Costs for Oxygen

01/17/06 - CPF Names Teresa Geiger as Vice President of Patient Outreach and Advocacy

01/13/06 - Advanced Genomics and Proteomics May Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of IPF

01/12/06 - Fibrosis Survivor Breathes Easy: A profile of CPF Advocate Frank Cabral