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University of Iowa Children's Hospital Thanks Peregrine Charities
Peregrine Charities Announces 2011 Grant Awards
Cedar Falls, IA, November 29: Peregrine Charities has awarded grants totaling $187,060 to two eastern Iowa medical facilities. The grants will support medical research for rare pediatric diseases and provide assistance with children’s hospitalization and medical treatment.
The University of Iowa Foundation in Iowa City was awarded two grants totaling nearly $150,000 to advance pediatric research and patient care. The first grant of $100,000 will augment the Peregrine Charities Discovery Fund for Children’s Medicine at the UI, which was created by Peregrine Charities in 2007. The fund supports research into rare pediatric diseases by scientists at the Department of Pediatrics in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. To date, Peregrine Charities support of this research fund has totaled $500,000.
A second grant of $42,210 will be used to purchase a Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) Machine, which will advance cell-based therapies for children with many congenital and acquired diseases.
St. Luke’s Foundation in Cedar Rapids was awarded $44,850 for the purchase of a CinemaVision goggle system made specifically for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). MRI is a test that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures inside the body. Children will soon feel like they are going to the movies instead of having a medical procedure at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids thanks to this donation.
Peregrine Charities is a grant-making family foundation that supports medical research for rare pediatric diseases and provides assistance with children’s hospitalization and medical treatment. Since 2004, Peregrine Charities has given over $1.5 million to Eastern Iowa hospitals. Peregrine Charities was established as a 501(c)3 organization in 2004 by the Wasendorf Family.
Peregrine Charities also sponsors and hosts the annual Peregrine Charities Triathlon at George Wyth State Park in Waterloo, IA. The next Triathlon is scheduled for Sunday, August 19, 2012. Registrations for the Triathlon will begin January 31, 2012.
posted | 11/29/2011
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