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    Health Lecture Series Luncheon 

    Aging and Age-related Eye Diseases: 
    The Women Perspective

    Guest Speaker: Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, PhD

    Friday, May 6, 2022
    12:00-1:30pm

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    Vision is one of the top predictors of aging. As people age, their risk increases for eye diseases and conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, dry eye, glaucoma, and low vision. 

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    We are very proud that so many have volunteered their time and experience in moving the Howell Foundation forward.  Collectively, our team has more that 480 years of experience in the areas of academic research, medicine, business, finance, law, community and education.  Our philanthropic spirit is what keeps us focused on the road map towards women’s health.

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    Howell -UCSD 2016 Scholar on Ovarian Cancer: A Personal Experience Turned to Research.

    Howell -UCSD 2016 Scholar on Ovarian Cancer: A Personal Experience Turned to Research.

    May 16, 2016in Howell-UCSD Scholarships

    Jaidev Bapat, one of  the recipients of the Mirandon Foundation Scholarships is focused on a form of cancer–ovarian.  Jaidev’s work in the lab will focus on ovarian tumor metastasis and…

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    Howell-UCSD 2016 Scholar and her interest in preventing breast cancer

    Howell-UCSD 2016 Scholar and her interest in preventing breast cancer

    May 16, 2016in Howell-UCSD Scholarships

    Tiffany Lee received one of three scholarships awarded by the Mirandon Foundation for Hope, indicating an interest in cancer, especially of the breast. Tiffany Lee’s project title is “Dissecting the Molecular…

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    Howell-UCSD 2016 Scholar, Jonathan Pham, to research the role of placental development and pre-eclampsia

    Howell-UCSD 2016 Scholar, Jonathan Pham, to research the role of placental development and pre-eclampsia

    May 16, 2016in Howell-UCSD Scholarships

    Jonathan Pham is researching the topic of the “Role of Sirt1 during Mouse Trophoblast Injury.” Jonathan, the second Mirandon Foundation for Hope scholar,  will focus on the roll of the…

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    Women in Science Rock: Interview with our May 20th speaker Dr. Dorothy Sears, Ph.D on Simple Lifestyle Changes

    Women in Science Rock: Interview with our May 20th speaker Dr. Dorothy Sears, Ph.D on Simple Lifestyle Changes

    May 12, 2016in Events, Exercise and Your Health, Intermittent Fasting, Nutrition

    Dr. Dorothy Sears will be presenting “Simple Lifestyle Changes for Improving Women’s Health”  on May 20th.  This interview provides an insight of our speaker.  Thank you Dr. Sears for joining…

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    Women's Health Week: The time to start taking care of one's health is NOW for a healthy life. Are you up for a challenge?

    Women's Health Week: The time to start taking care of one's health is NOW for a healthy life. Are you up for a challenge?

    May 10, 2016in Women's Health Awareness

    Every year in May, the Office on Women’s Health celebrates Women’s Health Week. Let’s face it: when we are in our 20’s we think we are invincible! But the foundation…

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    30 minutes a day keeps the doctor away! 9 things you can do to improve your health NOW.

    30 minutes a day keeps the doctor away! 9 things you can do to improve your health NOW.

    May 9, 2016in Exercise and Your Health, Nutrition, Women's Health Awareness

    How do you improve your health? Dr. Dorothy Sears, Associate Professor of Medicine from UCSD came to speak at the Howell Foundation’s luncheon research on 2 key concerns and how…

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    Being Grateful for all the Nurses that cross our path!

    Being Grateful for all the Nurses that cross our path!

    May 8, 2016in Latest News in Women's Health Research, Women's Health Awareness, Women's Health organizations in San Diego

    National Nurse’s week is celebrated May 6th to May 12th.  This incredibly noble profession isn’t always recognized as it should.  Aside from treating patients that can be very sick or…

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    Howell-UCSD Scholar Emily Judd to Conduct Research on Depression.

    Howell-UCSD Scholar Emily Judd to Conduct Research on Depression.

    May 5, 2016in Howell-UCSD Scholarships

    Come and meet Emily Judd at the Howell Foundation Lecture “Small Lifestyle Changes for Improving Women’s Health” on May 20th. The Howell Foundation announced that Emily Judd was awarded the…

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    Simple Lifestyle Changes for Improving Women’s Health

    Simple Lifestyle Changes for Improving Women’s Health

    April 25, 2016in Events, Fundraising

    We’ve all heard that exercise, managing stress and healthy eating are the cornerstone of a healthy life.  You can find tons of advice on how to make simple lifestyle changes…

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    Legacy Council Kickoff Meeting seeks to Ensure the History behind the Doris A. Howell Foundation.

    Legacy Council Kickoff Meeting seeks to Ensure the History behind the Doris A. Howell Foundation.

    April 22, 2016in Board of Directors

    The Howell Foundation Legacy Council held its inaugural meeting this month to discuss the ways in which it will work towards recording the history of the Doris A. Howell Foundation.…

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    It will take more than 10,000 experiments!

    It will take more than 10,000 experiments!

    April 16, 2016in Autoimmune disease, Events, Fundraising

    The Doris Howell Foundation held its first Luncheon Series with the lecture “Understanding the genome 10,000 experiments at a time: applying genomic approaches to understand autoimmune disease in women” with…

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    Always GREAT to hear from our scholars - Brandon Strong!

    Always GREAT to hear from our scholars - Brandon Strong!

    March 14, 2016in Scholars: Where are they now?

    Brandon Strong – Howell/CSUPERB Scholar 2016   Thank you Brandon Strong for you wonderful testimonial! Brandon was our 2016 CSUPERB Howell Scholar. The scholarship Brandon received goes to help him…

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    No need to count sheep! The 7 things you can do to improve your sleep tonight.

    March 11, 2016in Sleep Disorders, Women's Health Awareness

    The National Sleep Foundation paints a pretty clear picture on how lack of sleep affects women and their health, how they cope and a few recommendations on how to improve…

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    Congratulations to the 2016 Howell CSUPERB Scholars!

    March 10, 2016in Howell-CSUPERB Scholarships

      Pictured above: Sima Chokr (Biology, California State University, Long Beach), Karl Liboro (Biology, California State University, Los Angeles), Brandon Strong (Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) & Alan Tran…

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    Google Doodle: The power of a dream and the possibilities of making it happen. International Women's Day Doodle 2016: #OneDayIWill

    March 9, 2016in Doris Howell Foundation, Women's Health organizations in San Diego

    Those of us who constantly search the internet have come across a Google Doodle from time to time.  Something to lighten up the day as well as informative and fun!…

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    Celebrating the women and men that make our work at the Howell Foundation possible!

    March 8, 2016in Board of Directors, Women's Health Awareness, Women's Health Research support

    As this year’s International Women’s Day comes around, we would like to thank all the women and men that make our work at the Doris A. Howell Foundation possible. It…

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