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GIRF Funding and Thank You

GIRF Funding and Thank You

by GI Research Foundation | Jan 31, 2019 | GIRF Event, Research and Discovery, University of Chicago Medicine

Thank you to our Donors!! Thanks to your generous support, the GI Research Foundation raised more than $2 million in 2018.  We are so grateful for people like you who have made gifts in honor of your family members and friends who live every day with complicated GI...
Faces of GIRF: Katie Bryan Rainey

Faces of GIRF: Katie Bryan Rainey

by GI Research Foundation | Mar 26, 2017 | GIRF Event, GIRF Profiles

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] NAME: Katie Bryan Rainey HOME: Chicago, Ukrainian Village AGE: 35 PROFESSION: Freelance Producer...
Saturday Night in Chicago with the GI Research Foundation

Saturday Night in Chicago with the GI Research Foundation

by GI Research Foundation | Mar 24, 2017 | GIRF Event

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Please join us for a night of giving, comedy, dancing and inspiration ay the 12017 GI Research...
Associates Board Trivia Night Fundraiser

Associates Board Trivia Night Fundraiser

by GI Research Foundation | Feb 3, 2017 | GIRF Event

[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] On the evening of Thursday, January 26th, The GI Research Foundation’s Associates Board held a...
GI RESEARCH FOUNDATION DONOR APPRECIATION PICNIC

GI RESEARCH FOUNDATION DONOR APPRECIATION PICNIC

by GI Research Foundation | Nov 30, 2016 | GIRF Event

Donors, family, friends, physicians, and patients came together on Sunday, September 25th to enjoy the festivities of the GI Research Foundation Associates Board Donor Appreciation Picnic at the Vertiport helicopter hangar in Chicago. The first event of its kind, the...
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The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Medicine Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory research, leading to groundbreaking discoveries that transform lives.

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