Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation

Conquer Cancer funds more early-career physician scientists, without limits on geography or focus area, than any other independent cancer organization worldwide. The Young Investigator Award (YIA) is aimed at giving researchers the opportunity they need to pursue their fresh ideas. It's often the first big step needed to continue to be funded in the future. Learn how you can support research breakthroughs today at CONQUER.ORG.

Since 2013, Conquer Cancer's Women Who Conquer Cancer initiative has helped raise over $8 million to directly support women in cancer research. Learn more about this important work at https://brnw.ch/21wM0uG

Gabriele “Gabe” Grunewald faced cancer multiple times–including adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare tumor. Despite her cancer diagnosis, Gabe was a talented distance runner, placing 4th in the 2012 Olympic trials. She founded the Brave Like Gabe Foundation to encourage others to share stories of being brave through their own struggles while also helping to find better and more effective treatments for rare cancer. Sadly, Gabe passed in 2019, but her husband, Dr. Justin Grunewald, continues her legacy and spoke with host Dr. Mark Lewis in this Your Stories episode. Listen now: https://brnw.ch/21wLXHy

You might know Dr. and Lady Glaucomflecken for the hot takes and medical satire content, but for Kristin, aka Lady Glaucomflecken, this humor has a deeper meaning. After watching her husband go through cancer twice, including a cardiac arrest, humor is a method of coping with being a co-survivor. Listen to the full podcast episode: https://brnw.ch/21wLWlW

"A world where cancer is prevented or cured, and every survivor is healthy." It's a vision Conquer Cancer has pursued for 25 years. This National #NonProfitDay, we're more committed than ever to making that vision a reality and to making an impact on every cancer, for every patient, everywhere. Learn more at https://brnw.ch/21wLU6N.

Did you know Conquer Cancer funds researchers at many of U.S. News and World Report's Top 50 Cancer Hospitals? To date, we've raised more than $500M and awarded thousands of grants to support oncology's brightest minds in their search for better cancer treatments and cures. MD Anderson Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Mayo Clinic Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Recently, Conquer Cancer Awarded $1.45M to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers pursuing projects in a wide range of disease areas, including that of Dr. Florez. See the impact these researchers are making: https://brnw.ch/21wLKtZ

Without continued innovation, people with cancer wouldn't get the care they need. That's why it's so important that we continue raising money to fund the best and brightest researchers. Learn how you can help join our mission at CONQUER.ORG.

"Sustained funding can guide researchers through their careers and give them the chance to make groundbreaking discoveries for patients." –Dr. Thomas Roberts Dr. Roberts and his wife, Susan DaSilva, PhD, funded an endowed grant through Conquer Cancer in memory of his cousin. They hope its impact will last and encourage future recipients to think creatively and take risks in their work. Read more about Dr. Roberts' story here: https://brnw.ch/21wLGKb

Innovation at work! Dr. Aneja is applying the same machine learning techniques being used in facial recognition or self-driving cars to images of lung cancers to see if it can help identify the perfect treatment for individual tumors based on what they look like. #LungCancerAwareness