PSC Partners Seeking a Cure is a 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation that endeavors to find a cure for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. Today this liver disease has no specific treatment. PSC is affecting the lives of too many people including young children, college students, mothers, fathers, and grandparents. With no treatment or cure, people with this disease are suffering and dying while awaiting the uncertainty of a liver transplant. Little is known about this disease and its course is hard to predict. What isn't hard to predict is the heart break the next family will experience when PSC strikes them. Patients and caregivers need support and information. We desperately need research for treatment and a cure for PSC now. Please consider a donation to help us conquer this devastating disease.

The three-fold purpose of the PSC Partners Seeking a Cure foundation is to:

(i) raise funds with which to research the causes and cures of PSC,
(ii) promote PSC and organ donation awareness, and
(iii) provide education and support to PSC patients and their families.

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The 2009 PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Conference will be held May 1-3, 2009 in Chicago, IL. As further details become available, we'll post them here! Please join us in our latest fundraiser ..... "The Road to Chicago".

PSC Partners Seeking a Cure has recently donated $40,000 to support the STOPSC research initiative of the Morgan Foundation; see press release from: Memphis Business News, Jan 8, 2007.

PSC Partners Seeking a Cure will award a $3,000 prize annually at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The following announcement of the annual award is from AASLD: 58th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases:

PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Award
$3,000
(1 available)

This award shall be given to one investigator presenting the most promising PSC research at The Liver Meeting® 2007. All abstracts submitted to the Human Cholestatic and Autoimmune Liver Diseases Category, PSC descriptor will be considered for this award (there is not a formal application process for this award). Notification will be made in August. This award can be used to support travel and accommodation expenses associated with participation in the AASLD Annual Meeting, or for supplies and expenses for PSC research.

The awardee will also be invited to attend the PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Annual Conference (www.pscpartners.org).

AASLD gratefully acknowledges PSC Partners Seeking a Cure for their generous support of this award.

The recipient of the 2007 PSC Partners Seeking a Cure AASLD Award was Dr. Thomas H. Karlsen (Medical Department and Institute of Immunology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Oslo, Norway). Dr. Karlsen received this award because of his outstanding research on the genetic basis of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Congratulations Dr. Karlsen!

For more information about PSC, please see our brochure, "Living with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)" (a two-page tri-fold, in portable document format (.pdf); you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read this file). To order printed copies of the brochure, please send an e-mail with your name, mailing address and desired quantity to Barb Henshaw at: brochures@pscpartners.org. If requesting more then 50 brochures, please let us know how you plan to distribute them. Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery.

The brochure is also available in Hebrew "Living with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC); Hebrew Translation", thanks to Ellen and Chaim Boermeester of Israel.