A Quest to Reverse Lung Damage

Vineet Agrawal, M.D., Ph.D., didn’t plan a career in medicine. Growing up, he wanted to be an engineer and studied biomedical engineering at Duke University At Duke, he worked in a laboratory focused on medical devices There, he was inspired to pursue a medical degree and continue his research.

Dr Agrawal’ s path toward pulmonary hypertension (PH) was gradual It also was personal “I have a family member who suffers from pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) I get to see firsthand the effect that PAH has on the life of patients and families.”

Dr Agrawal seeks to understand how to reverse the destruction of lung vessels, one of the fundamental causes of PAH He and his colleagues have identified a new protein that could restore normal metabolism in PAH lung vessels. He hopes his findings th lt ti i l l d l d t

Pulmonary Hypertension Association

The Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) had a record fundraising year in 2021 despite pandemic-related obstacles.

In November, PHA conducted its best Giving Tuesday ever A $30,000 match in honor of PHA’ s 30th anniversary helped drive unprecedented donations for the online fundraiser The match came from generous donors within the PH community who lost family members to PH and wanted to help prevent similar losses.

The total raised for Giving Tuesday 2021 surpassed $121,000, more than 20% higher than the previous year. Those donations, along with endowments, corporate support, company matches and foundation gifts, funded PHA programs at a critical time

PHA’ s monthly giving club, the Sustainers Circle, also saw a large boost in 2021 Doug Taylor, a member of PHA’ s Board of Trustees with PH, led the charge to increase monthly contributions through our Summer Step-Up Campaign.

Other donors also shared their inspirational stories to encourage people to give what they could, resulting in some of the highest performing fundraising campaigns in PHA’ s history

Drive-By Lemonade Stand

Raises Money for PH Research

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Baseball Player Helps Strike Out PH

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Raising Awareness and Support for Rare Disease Research

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Tyler Garigen was 4 years old when he was diagnose family in making a donation for PHA’s 30th anniversa support people likeTyler. Donate now. http://ow.ly/VZ

Georgette and Dean Bridger’s love and devotion to e including Dean’s scleroderma and pulmonary arterial Dean have hope for a cure for PH. Join PHA’s 30th a http://ow.ly/nFEt50GvAZ0