To accelerate breakthroughs, the Damon Runyon Foundation provides today's best young scientists with funds to pursue innovative cancer research.
- Today’s Promising Areas of Cancer Research
- What is Cancer?
- A Broken Pipeline?
A Generation of Science at Risk
- ARISE Report
Early Career Scientists and High-Risk, High Reward Research - American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer (And How To Win It)
Clifton Leaf - Fortune Magazine
Annual Breakfast to Support Cancer Research
New York’s leading business people and philanthropists come together
each year for a morning call to raise funds in support of innovative
cancer research.
Held at a premier New York City location, our Annual Breakfast is an entertaining cancer fundraising event that gives guests the chance to learn about the important work of our scientists and network with well known New Yorkers – all before the work day starts.
Annual Breakfast 2011
Our 2011 Annual Breakfast honoring Norman B. Leventhal, Founder, The Beacon Companies, was held on June 1st at The Metropolitan Club in New York City. The event raised $1.16 million to fund cancer research and was attended by 250 guests, including leaders of science, academia and industry. The event featured a panel discussion with Elaine V. Fuchs, PhD, Professor, The Rockefeller University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Craig B. Thompson, MD, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Kenneth H. Cadwell, PhD, Assistant Professor, New York University School of Medicine and one of the first recipients of the Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists. The panel discussed current breakthroughs and the importance of funding innovative cancer research.
> See photos of the Annual Breakfast in support of cancer research