Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation

The Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation today has two major objectives: investigation and support of complementary and alternative medicine, particularly in the treatment of cancer, and economic education that promotes the principles of a free market.

The Foundation also supplies support to organizations that help people who fall through the social safety net of government programs for the needy. Most of these groups operate around the area of Main and Hastings in Vancouver and care for that very needy population. Some support is also given to existing charitable organizations that come to the Board's attention.

Current co-funding interests

Award types	Research focus (for all award types)
Research Trainee Scholar Health Professional-Investigator	Complementary and alternative cancer treatment Investigation of alternative medicine for the treatment of cancer Modifiable risk factors for the prevention of cancer and other major illnesses

Awards

Year	Award Recipient	Award Type	Project Title
2009	Jeffrey Mowat	Trainee Award	Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Eleutherobin and Designed Analogues for Cancer Therapy
2009	Amy Kirkham	Trainee Award	Exercise Intensity Prescription in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy Treatment
2013	Hamid Pahlevaninezhad	Trainee Award	Co-registered optical coherence tomography and autofluorescence imaging
2015	Mariya Cherkasova	Trainee Award	Behavioural and neural correlates of placebo responses in healthy and clinical populations
2018	Ka-Yee (Grace) Choi	Trainee Award	Using host defense peptides and their synthetic analogs as alternative therapy for chronic infection caused by multi-drug resistant organisms
2019	Haifeng Zhang	Trainee Award	Identification of IL1RAP as a novel oncoprotein and therapeutic target in Ewing sarcoma

Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation

Current co-funding interests

Awards

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