Impact Stories

For years, the MPN Research Foundation has delivered on a bold commitment to fund global pioneers studying innovative approaches to prevention, new therapies and improved quality of life for people living with essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera and myelofibrosis. We could not do this without your support.

Learn more about MPN Research Foundation's impact for more than two decades.

 

Patient Stories

Essential Thrombocythemia (ET)

Simran

Simran

MPNRF first got to know Simran, who was diagnosed with ET at age 14, when she was 16.

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Becky

Becky

Becky and Peter were engaged in 2019 and celebrated with a trip to Hawaii.

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Polycythemia Vera (PV)

Vivienne

Vivienne

Throughout the ten years that Vivienne had PV, she has been very fortunate to see great strides in knowledge about MPNs.

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Myelofibrosis (MF)

Julie

Julie

Julie felt compelled to do something to help find better treatments and eventually a cure.

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Don

Don

Don’s story of his MPN diagnosis began roughly twenty years ago in the spring of 2001 when he was hospitalized for stroke-like symptoms.

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