Our Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai funding grant provides research whose goal is the development of strategies aimed at blunting the very essence of cancer. This in turn can lead to the improvement of current therapies for highly aggressive cancers whose chemotherapeutic regimens often result in high toxicity for patients, treatments that are difficult for patients to tolerate.

Our grant to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, funds research into breast cancer genetics and is geared to making existing approaches more effective in the prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer. This project addresses issues at the cutting edge of cancer immunotherapy.

Fullfilling the National Cancer Center’s desire to provide funds for pediatric cancer research and education, we created the Children’s Cancer Project to investigate prevention and treatment of pediatric oncology, as well as public education relating to detection.

Our fellowship to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia focuses on neuroblastoma, the most common solid tumor cancer found in children.

The Fighting Childhood Leukemia program of the National Cancer Center provides research funding for the most common form of cancer in children. Research funded at Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute seeks to discover novel molecular markers and potential therapeutic targets that, in time, can lead to improved diagnosis and prognosis of acute myeloid leukemia patients.

The NCC Project funds promising cancer research that lies outside the purview of our core research funding programs. NCC fellowships have funded research in the following areas: brain tumors, melanoma, DNA repair, anti-cancer therapies, gene mutations and targeted therapeutics.

One of the most common types of cancer in men is Prostate Cancer. Challenges remain in choosing the best treatments for individuals at different stages of the disease. NCC is launching a new project in Prostate Cancer. Our scientists have initiated the new project to fund our scientists in how to prevent, detect and treat Prostate Cancer. Funding is badly needed to fuel the progress which will enhance finding a cure.