The Campaign for Cures Fundraising Goal for 2024 is $1,000,000
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Amount Needed to be Raised in 2024
$925,000 left
In Loving Memory of Dr. Alan Moy (1959-2024)
Dr. Alan Moy was born April 1, 1959, in Sacramento, CA. He attended Christian Brothers High School where he first showed an interest in medicine and research by winning Westinghouse Science Talent Search. He received a BS degree in biochemistry at the University of California at Davis followed by a MD degree from Creighton University in 1985, where he met his wife Jeanne. They married in 1985 in Omaha and moved to St. Louis where Alan did his Internal Medicine residency at St. Louis University. Later they moved to Iowa City for Alan's subspecialty training in pulmonary and critical care at the University of Iowa. Dr. Moy was the father of four children and the caretaker of several dogs over his lifetime.
After completing his fellowship, Dr. Moy remained at the University of Iowa on faculty between 1994-2005 and tenured in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. In 2005, Dr. Moy left his faculty position to found Cellular Engineering Technologies (CET), a pro-life biotech company in Coralville, IA. In 2006, Dr. Moy founded the John Paul II Medical Research Institute a non-profit research institute devoted toward the use of adult stem cells for treating orphan diseases, degenerative neurological diseases, regenerative medicine and cancer. He also maintained a private practice in Pulmonary Medicine including outreach to distant, underserved areas in eastern Iowa.
In 2009, the Small Business Commerce Association selected CET among the Best Business Award in the commercial biotechnology category, which recognizes the top 5 percent of small businesses throughout the country.
Dr. Moy was a strong believer in the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. He was greatly saddened that health care and research had moved away from this belief, and he worked hard to counter the secular influences he saw in the work he loved. He will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and the pro-life movement.
We pray that Dr. Moy's entrance to the other side of the veil was met with, "Well done, good and faithful servant!"
Dear supporters of the John Paul II Medical Research Institute,
I would like to thank each of you for your support of the Institute and its goals. Dr. Moy loved research and was deeply saddened that this field had become tainted with the use of unethically derived cells. He wanted to create a research institute free from this taint and so established the John Paul II Medical Research Institute. He worked tirelessly toward this goal.
However, Dr. Moy worked as scientific director of the Institute with little to no pay, giving his time freely because of the cause. With Dr. Moy's death, the Institute does not have the funds to replace Dr. Moy and finance the research at the Institute. Therefore we are making some changes in order to continue to support the mission of the Institute in promoting ethical research. We hope to do this in two ways.
First, we are working to set up a grant program by which we can assist other researchers also working towards the goal of curing diseases but without the use of unethically derived cells or materials. We will create an application form and work to establish experts in various fields to help us determine which applications have the best merit.
Secondly, we are working to set up a grant program to assist medical clinics working directly with mothers and children to promote the dignity of human life. This might take the form in assisting a medical clinic with an ultrasound machine or funds for medication to reverse the abortion pill. My husband loved research, but a big part of his life was also direct patient care. He continued to treat patients both in Iowa City and in outreach to underserved areas till his illness prevented him from doing so. Therefore, since patient care was also important to Dr. Moy, we feel it should be part of the John Paul II Medical Research institute.
We thank Jay Kamath for his past years as serving as director. He has decided to step down with the changes occurring at the Institute. The board is presently working with people in the local pro-life community to bring in a new director and assisting staff. We hope to have these positions filled soon. Please check our website in the coming months for updates.
If you are a researcher or work with a pro-life medical clinic and need assistance, we shall have the applications up in a few months. Please check the website in the new year.
If you are a researcher or physician who can assist in research grant review, please contact the institute at: office@jp2sri.org
It is possible that in time the Institute may be able to take up research again. Dr. Moy set up long range goals that have the Moy family support but the fruition of these plans is many years out and dependent on possibilities outside our control. We hope that this reworking of the Institute will helps us meet our mission without actually doing the hands on research.
Again, I thank you all for your support and ask you to continue to support us as we make these changes.
Blessings,
Jeanne Moy
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