Research Makes it Happen and Research Is Our Middle Name

GIRF has provided money for research projects, laboratory equipment, capital campaigns, fellowships, a medical library, and the world's largest IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) registry, and contributed key funding for vital research at critical times.

In the past 20 years, GIRF has undertaken capital campaigns to raise:

• $2 million to build The Joseph B. Kirsner Center for the Study of Digestive Disease
• $500,000 for the Cell Tech Project, enabling the University of Chicago to be awarded two center grants from the National Institutes of Health
• $3 million to build the Emma Getz Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Center
• $600,000 for research support in the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease leading to the identification of the NOD2 gene in Crohn's disease
• $150,000 for Fellowship support
• $1.5 million to establish a chair: The Joseph B. Kirsner Professorship in Gastroenterology
• $2 million to build the Boyer Laboratories in the Study of Human Genetics in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases