FAVR co-founders William K. Ehrenfeld, MD (left) and Ronald J. Stoney, MD (right) with their mentor, Edwin Jack Wylie, MD, circa 1973.
VascularCures - The Foundation for Accelerated Vascular Research was established in 1982 by Ronald J. Stoney, MD and William K. Ehrenfeld, MD, vascular surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with a generous gift from a grateful patient.
Initially called the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation, the non-profit supported vascular surgeons who conducted research concerning innovative treatment strategies for targeted vascular diseases. In 1990, thanks to its first multi-year grant, the foundation began supporting basic vascular science, focusing on the causes and mechanisms of vascular disease. In the late ‘90s, VascularCures added an outreach component to its programs in hopes of achieving its mission to prevent death and disability from vascular disease.
Today VascularCures funds the Wylie Scholar program and the Laboratory for Accelerated Vascular Research. Unlike any other organization, VascularCures funds doctors who also perform research in the lab and work side-by-side with scientists to solve the problems they see while treating patients - bringing ideas from the patient to the lab and back to the patient, instead of the other way around. VascularCures is bridging the gap between science and medicine.
