WE ARE PROUD OF OUR PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS – WITH
YOUR SUPPORT WE CAN ACHIEVE SO MUCH MORE
• Created an Institute Without Walls. This began 25 years ago with collaboration between the Foundationís Laboratory at New Yorkís Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Shanghai Institute of Hematology, RuiJin Hospital, Medical School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. This collaboration led to trailblazing clinical trials in China to successfully treat a lethal malignancy, acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), and send 90% of these patients into remission.
• Conducted laboratory research at Dartmouth that helped develop an active phase I trial that targets lung cancer, the most common lethal malignancy for men and women. Confirmatory trials are now underway at Mount Sinai and Dartmouth with encouraging results for lung cancer patients.
• Secured a new patent which discovered a novel use of a new class of compounds for non-toxic therapy for leukemia patients.
• Recruited a distinguished team of world-class scientists, spanning institutions throughout the United States and including a Nobel Laureate, to devise a cutting-edge strategy for gene therapy to combat metastatic melanoma. When proven successful in clinical trials, this teamís efforts will have applications far beyond even this devastating cancer. By reprogramming the immune system, other diseases such as AIDS or malaria could also be targeted by this approach.
• Devised an innovative tumor dormancy program that brings a global team together to advance this exciting conceptual breakthrough at the stem cell level, which establishes a novel framework to convert cancers into chronic diseases.
• Engineered new animal models that mimic human malignancies and can be used to rapidly confirm anti-cancer drug activities before moving into clinical trials. The members of the Institute Without Walls are committed to share these novel models and other resources with each other to achieve the Foundationís goals.
SWCRF Ranked as Leading Cancer Research Charity by Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator, a leading independent charity evaluator, has awarded SWCRF its highest four-star rating for two consecutive years in 2005 and in 2006. This means that SWCRF has outperformed most other charities in America. Less than 10% of the charities evaluated by Charity Navigator have received this rating for two successive evaluation periods. We invite you to review the rankings at www.charitynavigator.org.
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