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
Runyon 5K—Run/Walk for Cancer Research
On August 7, 2011, thousands of avid runners, baseball fans, cancer survivors, and supporters of cancer research took part in the third annual Damon Runyon 5K at Yankee Stadium, the only charitable run/walk that uses the legendary ballpark as its course. Former New York Yankees left fielder Roy White kicked off the 5K along with special guests Michael Gargiulo, co-anchor of NBC4’s “Today in New York,” Alan Leventhal, Chairman of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and Thomas Werner, Chairman of the Boston Red Sox. The event sold out with 4,000 participants raising more than $640,000 for cancer research.
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For more information, please email runyon5k@damonrunyon.org or call 212.455.0501.
> Read the full press release on the 2011 Runyon 5K
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