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Bryan and Courtney Acuto
With an investment of $250,000 from Bryan and Courtney Acuto, Melissa Burns, MD, and her team are advancing the clinical trial of a novel combination therapy for pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). The trial holds great promise to improve outcomes for young patients while alleviating side effects.
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American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation
The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation's generous grant of $100,000 supports the research of Dana-Farber’s Harshabad (Harsh) Singh, MBBS. This funding empowers him to further explore the biological foundations of HER2-driven gastric tumors and test innovative therapies. This can potentially transform treatment approaches for this challenging disease.
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Arbella Insurance Foundation
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Arbella Insurance Foundation continued its Strike Out Cancer program, where $50 per Red Sox strikeout, up to $100,000, is donated each season. With their $100,000 contribution in 2024, the foundation surpassed $1.2 million raised to date, underscoring Arbella Insurance’s vital partnership in defying cancer.
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John Cassidy
John Cassidy’s generous $300,000 gift establishes the Cassidy Family Melanoma Fellowship, to significantly advance melanoma research. Under the guidance of principal investigator F. Stephen Hodi Jr., MD, the Sharon Crowley Martin Chair in Melanoma at Dana-Farber, this funding will help support the mentorship of an early career investigator, fostering innovation and progress in the fight…
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CLL Global Research Foundation
The CLL Global Research Foundation awarded generous grants totaling $600,000 to Dana-Farber, supporting the research of Catherine Wu, MD, Lavine Family Chair for Preventative Cancer Therapies, and Erin Parry, MD, PhD. This funding will help advance their studies of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, aiming to uncover new insights and improve treatment for patients worldwide.
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Joseph C. Connolly
Joseph C. Connolly made a $100,000 gift in memory of his late wife, Deborah, to support the work of Jacob Sands, MD. With this gift, Sands, along with researcher Matthew Oser, MD, PhD, will work to identify biomarkers to personalize treatment and track response to therapy in patients with small cell lung cancer.
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Curing Kids Cancer
Curing Kids Cancer has donated $300,000 to Jun Qi, PhD, for his research on group 3 medulloblastomas (G3 MB). His team aims to develop a brain-penetrating EP300/CBP bromodomain inhibitor, offering a promising therapeutic option for these aggressive pediatric brain tumors, potentially transforming treatment from bench to bedside.
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Judy and Peter Kovler
Through the Judy & Peter Blum Kovler Foundation, Judy and Peter Kovler recently made a gift of $100,000, bringing their total giving to critical initiatives to $450,000. Their new gift supports research led by Sara Tolaney, MD, MPH, to accelerate new treatments for invasive lobular carcinoma, a difficult-to-diagnose breast cancer.
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Neal Levitan and Audrey Zabin
Neal Levitan and Audrey Zabin made a new gift of $150,000 to their previously established Levitan-Zabin Fund for the Glioma Patient Support Program to provide psychosocial support to patients with low-grade glioma tumors under the direction of David Reardon, MD, the Alperin Family Chair in Neuro-Oncology at Dana-Farber. Through Neal and Audrey’s generosity and that…
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Little Warrior Foundation
Little Warrior Foundation has granted $100,000 to Brian Crompton, MD, to develop a CLIA/CAP-certified pediatric-specific circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay. This non-invasive test aims to detect pediatric-specific cancer mutations that will be helpful in monitoring treatment response and may one day allow for risk stratification at diagnosis—helping clinicians tailor treatment intensity to the aggressiveness of…
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