A Message from Lewis Black

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A message from Lewis Black on Cancer

A message from Lewis Black on Cancer

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is founded on the belief that there is now sufficient knowledge of the basic science of cancer and that technologies are available to allow the focused practical application and proximal translation of even more basic science knowledge to patients with cancer. Furthermore, the successful application of this knowledge will result in more rapid advances in the treatment of patients and the prevention of cancer in those individuals who are at risk. The purpose of SU2C is to establish and support a focused and intense effort to effect these advances as rapidly as possible. SU2C believes that it can benefit the most patients by accelerating the course of cancer research through raising philanthropic dollars and developing unique mechanisms to utilize these funds. This novel approach is being designed in a way that will lead to the rapid funding of innovative ideas without bureaucratic delays. SU2C will utilize mechanisms to foster collaboration of the most talented and promising researchers across institutions; a team-oriented approach that promotes the sharing of information; and a goal-oriented focus on key problems in cancer designed with measurable milestones of progress. SU2C is committed to identifying the most promising opportunities and leveraging its fiscal and management resources to achieve a paradigm shift in clinical cancer research. SU2C is committed to transparency and high-quality science in its funding activities and believes that this can be accomplished within the framework of a truly innovative approach to support SU2C-funded research.

SU2C funds will support research projects conducted by interdisciplinary, multi-institutional translational and clinical research Dream Teams and high-risk Innovative Research Grants from which ideas for new Dream Teams may arise. The funds will be administered through the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the largest scientific organization in the world focusing on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research. Grants management and expert review will be conducted by AACR via a rigorous yet nimble, rapid, flexible and transparent process led by a "Blue Ribbon" Scientific Advisory Committee. The Committee is led by Nobel Laureate Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Chairperson, along with distinguished scientists Drs. Arnold J. Levine and Brian J. Druker, Vice-Chairpersons, and includes an additional fifteen highly accomplished senior laboratory researchers and physician-scientists and two advocates to be elected by the Advocate Advisory Council.

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