“It would have been very difficult for us to achieve these successes in our research program without the generous and visionary support of your foundation.”

David Baltimore, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology

James Economou, M.D., Ph.D Professor & Chief, Surgical Oncology, Deputy Director, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA

Michael Phelps, Ph.D Norton Simon Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA

Owen Witte, M.D. Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research; President’s Chair, Developmental Immunology, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA

“The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation has, uniquely, given my laboratory the chance to think and experiment outside the box and address some hard questions about how cancers form.”

Gerard Evan, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research, University of California, San Francisco

“The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation’s Institute Without Walls approach recognizes that in a world of continuing globalization, borders are not barriers to diseases and should not be barriers to the solutions to these diseases.”

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

“My relationship with the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation has been one of the most fulfilling experiences in my scientific career.”

Albert Baldwin, Ph.D. Kenan Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2008 Annual Report
To learn more about SWCRF’s activities and accomplishments, please see our 2008 Annual Report: