March 28, 2019
Stand Up To Cancer Hails Election of SU2C Team Leader as President-elect of American Association for Cancer Research
Stand Up To Cancer is hailing the election of active SU2C researcher and world-famous scientist, Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, as the 2019-2020 president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research, SU2C’s Scientific Partner.
Read MoreMarch 27, 2019
Stand Up To Cancer Funded Research to be Presented March 30 – April 3 at AACR Annual Meeting
Nobel Laureate James P. Allison, PhD, and other acclaimed researchers will be presenting their research funded by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual (AACR) Meeting 2019 from March 29th to April 3rd, the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) in Atlanta.
Read MoreMarch 25, 2019
Stand Up To Cancer Grants First Peggy Prescott Award In Colorectal Cancer Research
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) today announced the recipient of its inaugural Stand Up To Cancer Peggy Prescott Early Career Scientist Award in Colorectal Cancer Research, which was funded by Dallas Cowboys QB and SU2C Ambassador Dak Prescott in memory of his mother who passed away from the disease in 2013. The fellowship provides $50,000 in research funding over a two-year term to a rising star in the colorectal cancer field.
Read MoreMarch 4, 2019
Pancreatic Cancer Collective Comments on Promising New Pancreatic Cancer
Lustgarten Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer, strategic partners in the Pancreatic Cancer Collective, offer comments on research published today in the journal Nature Medicine which describes a new therapeutic approach with promise for patients with pancreatic cancer.
Read MoreFebruary 20, 2019
STAND UP TO CANCER SETS $50 MILLION ENDOWMENT FUND GOAL TO ENSURE THE FUTURE OF ITS CATALYTIC MOVEMENT TO FUND GROUNDBREAKING, LIFE-SAVING CANCER RESEARCH
Looking to the future, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) today announced the establishment of the Stand Up To Cancer Legacy Endowment CIRCLE, with the goal of raising $50 million by the end of 2019.
Read MoreJanuary 29, 2019
Stand Up To Cancer Awards 2019 Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research to Drs. Silvia Formenti and Heather McArthur
Stand Up To Cancer awarded the 2019 Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research to two highly respected clinical investigators who will join in a bi-coastal collaboration to use radiation and immunotherapy pre-operatively to help the body create its own vaccine to fight breast cancer.
Read MoreJanuary 28, 2019
Stand Up To Cancer Tackles T-Cell Lymphoma with Dream Team Focused on CAR-based Strategies Launched in Honor of Meg Vosburg
Stand Up To Cancer announced here today the creation of an $8 million Dream Team of top scientists focused on finding therapies for T-cell lymphoma, a rare cancer of the blood and immune system, using chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to trigger the immune system to attack and destroy cancerous cells.
Read MoreJanuary 16, 2019
WebMD Health Hero Awards Honor Researchers, Caregivers and Advocates Transforming the Impact of Cancer
WebMD celebrated the accomplishments and contributions of researchers, health care professionals and advocates who are helping to transform the impact of cancer during its Health Heroes event in New York City yesterday.
Read MoreJanuary 4, 2019
Stand Up To Cancer notes the passing of Waun Ki Hong, MD
Waun Ki Hong, MD, renowned medical oncologist, physician-scientist, innovator and a scientific leader of Stand Up To Cancer, died Jan. 2, 2019, at age 76. Dr. Hong served as a member of the SU2C Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) since its inception in 2008, as well as chairperson or member of SU2C research team review committees.
Read MoreDecember 12, 2018
PEOPLE Celebrates 23 Years Hosting the SAG Awards® Post-Awards Gala to Honor Actors’ Charitable Endeavors
Meredith Corporation’s PEOPLE will once again host the official SAG Awards® Post-Awards Gala, to be held immediately following the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday, January 27, 2019, in Los Angeles on a transformed Shrine Auditorium stage. This is the 23rd year that PEOPLE has hosted the Gala, which honors the charitable efforts of actors in their communities.
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