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...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced last Friday that it had received a $16.5 million donation to fund cancer research, marking the largest gift from an individual in the Harvard-affiliated institute’s 58-year history. The institute’s chief scientific officer, Barrett J. Rollins, said the donation will be used to research proteins and their functions at a soon-to-be-created center named for the donors, Jack Blais, an optical coating entrepreneur who has been a trustee of Dana-Farber since 2002, and his wife, Shelley. In addition to Friday’s donation...
...Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCCC) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, were jointly awarded a $4.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health earlier this week. The grant, to be paid over five years, will be used to combat health disparities in the Boston area. “This marks the beginning of a bold new effort to solve one of health care’s most troubling problems—health disparities that affect so many Americans because of their backgrounds,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...36th annual ice-skating charity benefit show, “An Evening with Champions.” Skating celebrities and up-and-coming talents from the Boston area and throughout America donated their time to raise money for The Jimmy Fund, which supports efforts at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight children’s cancer. This year’s Evening co-chairs Kierann E. Smith ’06 and Lauren E. Jones ’07 estimated that the production drew almost 4,000 to two performances on Friday and Saturday nights, raising between...
...Misha Petkevich ’71, a figure skater and former Eliot resident, met a group of children being treated for leukemia. Within a few weeks, he organized the first EWC, welcoming national figure skaters to perform at Harvard to raise money for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. This year 24 skaters will perform. Many of them are Olympic or national medalists. “We try to do everything as professionally as possible,” said Kukunova. “An Evening with Champions is all student-run. Skaters who are here really become...
...example, Tufts has a $1,000 fund-raising minimum for undergraduates and a $2,300 minimum for employees. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has a $2,500 minimum, according to HCMC’s website...