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June 7, 2009 – ‘RC Dolner’s 1st Annual Exotic Car Tour’ fundraiser will be hosted by RC Dolner LLC, a major New York-based construction company.
Get ready to start your engines!
Exotic cars (Lamborghini, Lotus, Maserati, Bugatti, Bentley, etc) will be driven from the Jersey Shore to West Point, New York. Proceeds from the event will benefit the University of Michigan Scleroderma Program.
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| Dr. Hou, Dr. Seibold and colleagues |
 October 2008 - A farewell reception was held to honor Yong Hou, M.D., who completed a two year postdoctoral research fellowship in clinical and basic research in the University of Michigan Scleroderma Program. His laboratory research while in the Scleroderma Program focused on molecular mechanisms of blood vessel damage and growth in scleroderma skin. Dr. Hou returned to his active rheumatology practice at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rheumatology.
 October 4, 2008 – The 2nd Annual Greatest 5K Ever fundraiser race was held at Riverside Park in Grand Rapids, MI and was hosted by the Help Fight Scleroderma Foundation.
Proceeds from the event will support scleroderma research at the University of Michigan. The Help Fight Scleroderma Foundation was created by the Brennan Family as a means to raise awareness about scleroderma in West Michigan.
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Scleroderma Program faculty & staff
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September 2008 – The Scleroderma Program received an NIH (NIAMS) grant in collaboration with the University of Texas Medical School
This two-phase study, the Genome-Wide Association Study in Scleroderma, will identify the genetic clues to scleroderma by finding genes specific for scleroderma in 3000 patients with scleroderma in the United States and Canada. The genetic information will help provide a map to the pathways that cause scleroderma.
September 2008 – The Scleroderma Program received a second gift of $20,000 from The Clancy Family Foundation of Farmington Hills, Michigan for scleroderma research at the University of Michigan.
Last year the Scleroderma Program also received $20,000 from the Clancy Family Foundation, c/o Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clancy. These two generous gifts are helping to facilitate fast-paced, high risk pilot research projects. We are grateful to the Clancy Family Foundation for its vision and partnership.
August 2008 – The Scleroderma Program received an award from the NIH. Sponsored by the NHLBI and led by Beth Moore, PhD. of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Michigan, this project investigates fibrocytes (bone marrow derived fibroblast precursors) to determine the origin and development of scleroderma interstitial lung disease. The study will explore how the fibrocytes transit to injured lung and cause scarring.
March, 2008 – The University of Michigan Scleroderma Program’s faculty and staff offices moved to the nearby Domino’s Farms office complex in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 The faculty and staff of the University of Michigan Scleroderma Program outgrew their office space in the University of Michigan’s Taubman Center and moved to Domino’s Farms, a sprawling Ann Arbor office complex located a few miles northeast of the U-M Taubman Center.
Patient clinics remain in the Taubman Center.
Our address is:
University of Michigan Scleroderma Program
Domino’s Farms
24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive
P.O. Box 481, Lobby M, Suite 2500
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Office Phone: 734-763-3110
Toll Free: 866-628-9200
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