DeGregorio Family Foundation (DFF) funds innovative research focused on curing gastric and esophageal cancers.  It is the only public foundation solely focused on funding research grants for both gastric and esophageal cancers.  To date, DFF has funded $7.9 million across 31 grants.  The grant winners have gone on to receive follow-on funding of more than $45.6 million, the majority of it from the National Institutes of Health.