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Physician Scientist with a Lifelong Devotion to Reduce Cancer Suffering

Recently, Mayor Sylvester Turner recognized the contributions of Ronald A. DePinho, M.D. to our community and the world at a City Hall ceremony. I have since learned more about the person and leader that inspired the Mayor’s Proclamation. Ron is an internationally renowned physician-scientist whose name is often associated with significant scientific discoveries in the

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Brain Cancer Patients are the First to Benefit from a Historic $100 million Mission to Defeat Brain Cancer

Australians with brain cancer – and all of those who are unknowingly at risk from this nearly always terminal disease – will benefit from an unprecedented initial donation of $10 million by the Minderoo Foundation. The seed funding will be used to develop an innovative “road map” that aims to double survival rates in patients

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Legal Action Study underway and calls for Age of Tobacco Purchases to be raised to 21

In a bid to prevent, and compensate, Australian smokers from extreme and unnecessary suffering and death, the Minderoo Foundation, has called on the Federal and State Governments to stop young people from supporting Big Tobacco companies until they are at least 21. The Foundation Chairman and co-founder, Mr Andrew Forrest AO with his wife Nicola,

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NIH Budget Cuts will Jeopardize American’s Leadership in Medical Research

In the last 10 years, remarkable advances have been made in how we fight cancer, work that was made possible by our nation’s support of biomedical research, largely through the National Institutes of Health. One of the most powerful new tools in our arsenal is cancer immunotherapy, which reawakens the body’s own immune system. Immunotherapy

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