president's message
Fifteen years ago, Evelyn Lauder saw an urgent need in the world of breast cancer research. She refused to sit back as breast cancer took a toll on more and more women and their families, and she recognized that increased funding for innovative medical research was the direct route to ending breast cancer. The mission of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation was powerful and clear from the beginning: to prevent breast cancer and find a cure in our lifetime.
We are united in
our shared responsibility to fund research, our shared demand that it adheres to the highest standards, and our shared responsibility to ensure that its benefits are translated to the clinic, for the patients who need it.
As we embark on the 15th year of our commitment to breast cancer research, we have cumulatively raised in excess of $215 million. In October, 2008 BCRF will award over $34 million in new research grants to 165 scientists from top universities and academic medical centers across the globe. Finding a cure for cancer is an attainable goal, and it is our firm belief that we must fuel those who are searching for the answers. When you support BCRF, you are investing in the greatest minds in cancer research in universities and academic medical centers around the world. Most importantly, you are investing in a future without breast cancer.
We believe that by endorsing the men and women who are developing the most innovative research, we can put an end to not only breast cancer but all cancers. "We're here today to consign cancer to the history books, because we know that cancer is a solvable problem," says Larry Norton, MD, Chairman of the BCRF Executive Board of Scientific Advisors.
Together we will continue to work towards a world unencumbered by cancer.
Sincerely,
Myra J. Biblowit
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