Monthly Archives:
March 2021

2021 marks 25 years since Gabrielle Rich Aouad passed away from leukemia. In honor of this anniversary, we were inspired to take a look back at the many scientific breakthroughs and notable milestones that have defined the past two and a half decades of our Foundation’s history. Thanks to our generous donors, world class Medical Advisory Board, […]

Big news from the Charisma Therapeutics team, co-founded by Gabrielle’s Angels grantee Dr. Saar Gill – they’ve just started the FIRST EVER clinical trial for a CAR-engineered macrophage (CAR-M) cell therapy. In preclinical trials, the treatment demonstrated the potential to overcome the challenges that have kept CAR T-cell therapies from benefitting patients with solid tumors. […]

Cancer cells can dodge chemotherapy by entering a state that bears similarity to certain kinds of senescence, a type of “active hibernation” that enables them to weather the stress induced by aggressive treatments aimed at destroying them, according to a new study by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine (including Dr. Ari Melnick, former Gabrielle’s Angels […]

Congratulations to Gabrielle’s Angels grantee Dr. Marco Ruella and his colleagues at the Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania on this impressive breakthrough! Dr. Ruella and his team discovered that knocking out a protein known to stifle T cell activation on CAR T cells using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology enhanced the engineered T cells’ ability […]

Our researchers are not only making an impact in blood cancer research, they’re also making important discoveries in the fight against Covid. Immunologists Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, and Gabrielle’s Angels grantee Aaron Ring, MD, PhD, have identified autoantibodies in patients who have had COVID-19. Autoantibodies are antibodies (proteins produced in response to a pathogen) that mistakenly […]

More details about the important work that one of our grantees, Dr. Aaron Ring at Yale University, has been contributing to throughout the pandemic. He has been focused on discovering answers to questions like why do some people get so much sicker than others? What is behind the extended, multi-organ illness that lasts for months […]

Check out this fabulous feature on the rockstar women cancer researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, including Dr. Teresa Bowman and Dr. Hilda Ye who are Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation grantees! Read the full feature here. 

Congratulations to Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation grantee Dr. Herranz and his team for their recent publication in Blood Cancer Discovery! Their lab has successfully identified a tumor suppressor enhancer region of PTEN in T-cell leukemia. Keep up the great work Dr. Herranz! Read the full paper here. 

Congratulations to 2011 Gabrielle’s Angels Grantee Dr. Benjamin Ebert for being selected to receive the coveted Sjöberg Prize for cancer research. This $1M prize was awarded for Dr. Ebert’s groundbreaking discovery of the mode of action of lenalidomide in the treatment of hematological disorders. The mission of Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation has always been to support […]

Congratulations to Dr. Carl June, member of our Medical Advisory Board, for receiving the prestigious Dan David Prize. The Dan David Prize is endowed by the Dan David Foundation, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, which annually awards three prizes of $1 million each to globally inspiring individuals and organizations, honoring outstanding contributions that expand knowledge […]

A new publication out from not one but *two* of our recent grantees, Dr. Ann Mullally and Dr. Sahand Hormoz! Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation directly funded this research and we’re so thrilled to see this progress. Check out the full paper here. 

A fantastic feature on one of Gabrielle’s Angels one-year grantees, Dr. Avery Posey at UPenn. Dr. Posey focuses on optimizing CAR T-cell treatments while decreasing its toxicity. He’s also dedicated to improving access to careers in STEM for students of color and has recently established a pilot program to bring in six students of color […]