Dear supporters of the John Paul II Medical Research Institute,
We at the John Paul II Medical Institute would like to update you on what is happening here!
First, I would like to introduce our new staff. In February, Mr. Brandon Marsh came on board as our new Executive Director and assisting in the office is Judee Albert. You can read more about them below.
We should have a new platform for managing donations and other aspects of non-profit work up and running very soon. This will include a safe and secure way for donations to be made online without the need to go through PayPal.
While we have spent time on the "housekeeping" required to move to our new mission, we did dispense two grants.
Mr. Marsh has a background in law enforcement, IT, was a consultant for the State of Iowa and works in Religious non-profit administration. With Mr. Marsh's help, we shall soon have updates to the website and applications for those applying for grants. The Board is very pleased to welcome Mr. Marsh.
Ms. Albert was formerly the director of Johnson County Right To Life. She has been helping out since November, and has been instrumental in helping to update our office and software.
Grants
The first grant of $20,000 was given in December to Cellular Engineering Technologies (CET).
CET was founded by Dr. Alan Moy and now operates under CEO Marc Centrella. CET was initially established to do ethical adult stem cell research, producing ethical reagents for other researchers. It continues in this direction along with other endeavors, all done with only ethically derived cells. CET has taken on some of the research formerly done by the John Paul II Medical Institute, and the grant was given to help CET take on this work.
A second grant of $5,000 has been given to the Providence Pregnancy Center in Pennsylvania. The center is directed by Jessica Freyne and opened in 2022. They have assisted over 200 women. Ms. Freyne explains:
Our pregnancy center boasts a beautiful baby pantry where we distribute diapers, clothing, and essentials to mothers in crisis. We counsel abortion-minded and abortion-vulnerable women in areas such as chastity, healthy relationships, financial literacy, and parenting. We believe in building relationships with the mothers we serve so that they experience love and community. Our maternity home, Casa De Maria, is set to open next month and will be able to house up to four pregnant women at a time, throughout pregnancy and up to twelve months after giving birth. My hope is that by loving these women and their children and proving to them they are supported, we build a culture that won't consider abortion as an option.
More information about the Providence Pregnancy Center can be found on their website:
and also on this video: https://vimeopro.com/user8858614/providence-pregnancy-center-2024-film
We thank all of you who have continued to donate and support us with your prayers.
The John Paul II Medical Research Institute (JP2MRI) focuses on the most ethical and cost-effective way of conducting medical research to help develop therapies and cures for a variety of diseases. Most diseases share a common technical requirement to create therapies. The Institute’s research focuses on these common technical requirements by recruiting patients to procure tissue to develop stem cells and cancer cells for medical research.
The Institute differentiates itself from other research organizations in the following manner:
1. We do NOT support embryonic stem cell research. We support research that is pro-life driven.
2. We devote more than half of our budget towards medical research, which is far greater than most established foundations.
We need your support now.
“The service of humanity leads us to insist, in season and out of season, that those using the latest advances of science, especially in the field of biotechnology, must never disregard fundamental ethical requirements by invoking a questionable solidary which eventually leads to discriminating between one life and another and ignoring the dignity which belongs to every human being.”
St. Pope John Paul II