Funds to benefit all PAMF locations

Research Institute Fund for Excellence

The Research Institute supports research on a wide range of topics from clinical trials, to analysis of our electronic health records, to research on improving affordability and quality of the care we provide. Gifts made to this fund will be used where the need in greatest within the Research Institute.

Fund for Improving Cancer Care

Your gift to this fund will support a wide range of research activities focused on improving care of patients with cancer. Projects include supporting the enrollment of our patients in national studies of new therapies and improving patient understanding of the treatment choices available.

Jack S. Remington Fund for Maternal and Child Health

Gifts to this fund support research focused on the health and health care of pregnant women and young children. Topic areas range from preventing illness to the most effective ways to achieve early detection and intervention of health problems.

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At the Research Institute: improving mortality for South Asians

We apply clinical data to uncover patterns of disease in particular patient populations, customizing care for ethnic groups with a genetic predisposition for cancer, cardiovascular disease and other life-threatening conditions.

• Young South Asian men are three times likelier to die from coronary artery disease than non-Hispanic whites; preliminary studies have implicated low HDL (good cholesterol) in this dangerous disparity
  
• Genomic studies underway will help find and test drugs to prevent the disease among South Asians, who make up only 1 percent of the U.S. population, but 10 percent within the San Francisco Peninsula and one-third of the population worldwide
  
• Similar studies will search for genomic causes that may account for the higher incidence of colorectal cancer among South Asian patients—and earlier intervention to save lives