Wanted: Powerful New Weapons in the Fight Against Prostate Cancer
The Prostate Cancer Foundation is offering research funds for projects that can convey the most benefit to patients in the short term. This is not money for incremental research.
View ArticleAlex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Aims to Fast-Track Promises Approaches to...
It’s common knowledge that there’s a big gap between basic research and the clinical trial stage—a gap that literally costs lives, as patients waiting for cures simply run out of time.
View ArticleFor Researchers Grappling With Muscular Dystrophy, This Funder Is Key
Muscular dystrophy is some horrible business, and there's a hunger for research breakthroughs in in this area. Which is where the Muscular Dystrophy Association comes in.
View ArticleA Funder's Latest Big Push To Harness Patient Data for Breakthroughs
Want to score breakthroughs toward curing some dread disease? Amass a vast trove of patient data and study it in new ways. And get big-spending funders like Helmsley Charitable Trust to foot the bill.
View ArticleThe Eli Lilly Company Carries On its Near-100-Year History with Diabetes
Few companies are as inextricably linked with a specific medical breakthrough as Eli Lilly and Company is with mass-produced insulin. That history shapes its philanthropy, too.
View ArticleThe Logic Behind a Push to Support Underfunded Young Cancer Researchers?
The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance is an example of growing risk taking in philanthropy in search of medical breakthroughs. We connected with its director to hear how this outfit operates.
View ArticleHope for Pulmonary Diseases From Regenerative Treatment? A Funder Hopes So
As genomic medicine shines a light on diseases and disorders where tissue regeneration is the only possible hope for treatment, it seems these pulmonary diseases may be set to benefit from this...
View ArticleA Sweet Gig, for Sure: Who Made the Cut as New HHMI Investigators?
With nearly $19 billion in assets, HHMI’s influence on academic medical research can’t be overstated. So when the funder puts 26 more scientists on the payroll, it’s worth a closer look at the new class.
View ArticleYet More Money for Cancer Research from a Media Mogul You’ve Never Heard Of
The Sidney Kimmel Foundation, which was founded in 1993, has done almost nothing but give to create cancer centers and fund research. Here's a closer look, including at a recent round of research awards.
View ArticleFighting Drug-Resistant Cancer, in Boston
Cancer drugs have been evolving in leaps and bounds over the past twenty or thirty years. Meanwhile, though, cancer has been evolving, too. Here's a funder in this corner of the research fight.
View ArticleTaproot Supports Those Who Fight Disease
The Taproot Foundation provides substantial grants in the form of pro bono consultant support to help nonprofits focused on diseases and health grow their internal capacity.
View ArticleIncrementalists Need Not Apply: $110,000 a Year for T1D Breakthroughs
From the beginning, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has been about curing type 1 diabetes, and its breakthrough-chasing approach is most evident in its Innovative Grant Program.
View ArticleUp for Grabs: Nice Awards from Pfizer for Autoimmune Disease Research
These are the ASPIRE Rheumatology and Dermatology research awards, and they’re designed to fund research that can further the understanding of rheumatoid arthritis and plague psoriasis.
View ArticleGrants for Progeria? Yup. See Who's Taking on This Incredibly Rare Genetic...
If you’ve seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or the 1996 flop Jack, starring Robin Williams, then you have some idea of what progeria is. Fortunately, there's a foundation on the case.
View ArticleThe Foundation that Thinks Globally (And Acts Locally) on Down Syndrome
The Global Down Syndrome Foundation has a grantmaking program to ensure that people who have Down syndrome get the best educational support and personal counseling that society can give them.
View ArticleAt ALSF, Concern About the Psychosocial State of Kids with Cancer
It can be easy to neglect a kid’s mental state when they have life-threatening cancer. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in, you know, saving their life, that their quality of life dips sharply in the...
View ArticleA New President and a New Diabetes Push: Changes at John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation has a new president and is focusing its grantmaking on diabetes prevention in older adults. These changes stand to make a big impact on elder care in New York City.
View ArticleA Cancer Cure from Squashed Grapes? An Anonymous Donor Hopes So
Here's a mysterious gift to a North Carolina research center to be used specifically to study the effects of antioxidant muscadine grape extract on prostate and breast cancer.
View ArticleA Big Round of Gifts to Identify Melanoma Risk Factors
Founded in 2007 by Broadway producer Debra Black and her husband Leon, CEO of Apollo Management, LP, the Melanoma Research Alliance made a meteoric rise. Here's a look at its most recent round of grants.
View ArticleTo Take on Food Allergies, This Group is Funding a Two-Front War
To fund long-term research or near-term care? It's a perennial dilemma for health philanthropy. A new initiative to confront frightening food allergies is putting money into both strategies.
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