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Virtual Disco Party

Virtual Disco Party

Published: Feb 3, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

In the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, the Foundation hosts its first-ever online event, the Virtual Disco Party, with performances by Patti LaBelle, Kathy Sledge, Chaka Khan, and more. Over $1M is raised for research in a time when early career scientists need help more than ever.

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8 Stellar New Grantees

8 Stellar New Grantees

Published: Feb 3, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

The Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board selects eight of the nation’s top early career scientists to receive our three-year, $225,000 Medical Research Award Dr. Jeroen Roose (Gabrielle’s Angels Grantee 2011) is part of a team who has designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, but only weakly effective when […]

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AML Discovery

AML Discovery

Published: Feb 3, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

Exciting news out of the lab of grantee Dr. Saar Gill at the University of Pennsylvania. A new approach pioneered at the Abramson Cancer Center may provide a new path towards treating Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) with CAR T cells. “Think of this as bone marrow transplant 2.0; the next generation of transplants,” Gill said. […]

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Grantee Breakthrough

Grantee Breakthrough

Published: Feb 3, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

2011 grantee Jeroen Roose & his lab discover that normal T cells, a type of immune cell, possess a control mechanism to keep these cells in the resting state when there is no infection or immune response to a foreign substance in the body.

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3 New FDA Approvals for Blood Cancers

3 New FDA Approvals for Blood Cancers

Published: Feb 2, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

Foundation announces grants in the amount of $1,531,500 In the fall of 2015, the FDA approves three new treatments—daratumumab (Darzalex), elotuzumab (Empliciti) and ixazomib (Ninlaro)—that activate the body’s immune system to attack multiple myeloma cells or hinder their ability to grow. 

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Funding More Research

Funding More Research

Published: Feb 2, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

Foundation awards total of $1,735,000 in grants including 17 scientific research projects which include 3 New Investigator Awards administered by the American Society of Blood & Marrow Transplantation

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Art Therapy

Art Therapy

Published: Feb 2, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

Foundation announces awards totaling $2,307,000 in grants including 18 scientific research projects, 5 music therapy programs and select symposia Board Member Lorraine Schwartz takes a team of professional jewelry makers to Children’s National in Washington, D.C. for a special day of art therapy with pediatric cancer patients. These one-of-a-kind pieces, designed by the children & […]

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Janet Rowley Honored

Janet Rowley Honored

Published: Feb 2, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

 Medical Advisory Board Member, Dr. Janet D. Rowley, dubbed by The New York Times as the “Matriarch of Modern Cancer Genetics,” is awarded the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Barack Obama Howard Hughes Medical Institute appoints 2005 Foundation grantee, Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D. of New York University Medical Center as […]

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Gabrielle’s Music Therapy Program

Gabrielle’s Music Therapy Program

Published: Feb 2, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

The Integrative Medicine Department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center expands to include Gabrielle’s Music Therapy Program.  This free service brings live music to the bedside of patients and their family members by trained music therapists. 

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Empire State Building

Empire State Building

Published: Feb 2, 2021   |   Author: Michele Keene   |   No Comments

New York landmark, The Empire State Building, lights up with Foundation colors red & purple to celebrate the Angel Ball which raises a record $5.3 million  Foundation distributes ten new grants totaling $2.25 million.

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