The Marfan Foundation Annual Report 2021

40 YEARS OF RESE

We wouldn’t have been able to make this impact without the Foundation’s support of our work. It allowed us to take on the pilot study, generate the preliminary data and build upon it, and, ultimately, put together an international consortium that could then build the groundwork for larger scale research towards the goal of improved long-term clinical outcomes for people with Marfan syndrome undergoing proximal aortic graft replacement surgery. Innovative and ground-breaking research in any field cannot be done without pilot funding to support early-stage exploratory studies capable of producing long-term advances that improve clinical care. Large-scale federal research is important and ultimately necessary for this process, but it can’t support the process in isolation. Funding from organizations such as The Marfan Foundation enables early-stage research to occur.

– Jonathan W. Weinsaft, MD, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center

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