July 28, 2015
Give Back While Banking? Fifth Third Bank Pledges Support to Stand Up to Cancer
What if even more of us could help fight cancer?
Read MoreJuly 13, 2015
Dine Out with MasterCard and Support a Priceless Cause: Fighting Cancer
Call your family and text your friends because it’s time to get together for lunch, brunch, dinner—any meal at all—and raise money for an important cause. For the fifth consecutive year, MasterCard is collaborating with Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) in the U.S. and inviting cardholders to give back through the simple act of dining out. For the first time, the dining program will also support SU2C Canada.
Read MoreJuly 8, 2015
Saks Fifth Avenue Teams Up With EIF’s SU2C Initiative For 2015 Key To The Cure Campaign
Saks Fifth Avenue and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) announced today that Oscar®-winning actress Julianne Moore has been named ambassador for Saks Fifth Avenue’s 2015 Key To The Cure campaign. For the first time, Saks Fifth Avenue will be teaming up with Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, created to accelerate innovative cancer research through collaboration among leading scientists from different institutions and disciplines who work together to deliver new therapies to patients quickly. By galvanizing the support of the entertainment indus¬try, SU2C creates awareness and builds broad public sup¬port for this effort to combat all types of cancers.
Read MoreApril 20, 2015
New SU2C-American Cancer Society Lung Cancer Dream Team Announced
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) announced the formation of a $20 million Dream Team to attack the number one cancer killer in America, lung cancer, here today at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Scientific Partner to SU2C.
Read MoreApril 20, 2015
New Ovarian Cancer Dream Team Announced; $6M Grant Over 3 Years Will Focus on DNA Repair Therapies
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF), Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA), and National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC), along with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Scientific Partner to SU2C, announced today the formation of a Dream Team devoted to ovarian cancer research at the AACR Annual Meeting 2015, held here April 18-22.
Read MoreApril 16, 2015
Tony Goldwyn Honors His Mother in New Lung Cancer PSA for SU2C
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), is increasing national awareness about one of the deadliest cancers, lung cancer, in a new public service announcement (PSA), which is supported by a charitable donation from Bristol-Myers Squibb. The campaign features actor, director and SU2C ambassador Tony Goldwyn, who lost his mother, Jennifer Coleman to lung cancer. The PSA will begin airing April 2015.
Read MoreMarch 24, 2015
SU2C and PBS LearningMedia Announce Award Program For Students In Conjunction with Film Supporters
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and PBS LearningMedia announced today The EMPEROR Science Award Program, an initiative that will encourage students from disadvantaged high schools to pursue careers in science, with a particular emphasis on cancer research through a year of mentorship with a scientist from a leading research institution or industry. The education initiative, announced this morning by SU2C co-founder Katie Couric at Columbia University, is being launched in connection with Ken Burns Presents CANCER: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES a Film by Barak Goodman, a three-part film on the history of cancer that will air on PBS Monday, March 30, Tuesday, March 31 and Wednesday, April 1.
Read MoreMarch 4, 2015
CRUK and The Lustgarten Foundation Join With SU2C to Fund New Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is now accepting submissions of ideas for the Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)-Cancer Research UK-Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team Translational Research Grant. The grant provides up to $12 million over a three-year period for research on prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of pancreatic cancer by a “Dream Team” of top scientists.
Read MoreFebruary 26, 2015
SU2C-Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Convergence Dream Team Supports New Immunotherapy Trial
Aduro Biotech, Inc. today announced the initiation of an investigator-sponsored Phase 2 clinical trial of the company’s immuno-oncology product candidates GVAX Pancreas and CRS-207 in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (nivolumab), a monoclonal antibody against programmed death-1 receptor (PD-1). The first patient has been enrolled in the trial that will be conducted at up to five U.S. clinical trial sites.
Read MoreFebruary 4, 2015
Groundbreaking Public Media Project On Cancer Announces TV Special Hosted by Katie Couric
WETA, the flagship public media station for Washington, D.C., announced today, World Cancer Day, that it has produced a 30-minute television special titled Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies — A Conversation. The program is a companion piece to the national public media project Ken Burns Presents Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies A Film by Barak Goodman, which includes a six-hour documentary series for PBS that presents a comprehensive report on the history of the disease, the state of cancer today, the treatments and the promise of ongoing research.The series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Simon & Schuster 2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. At the urging of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) co-founder, the late Laura Ziskin, the Entertainment Industry Foundation obtained the television and film rights for its Stand Up To Cancer initiative shortly after the book was published.
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