What is Stand Up To Cancer?
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is a an unprecedented collaboration uniting the major television networks, entertainment industry executives and celebrities, and prominent leaders in cancer research and patient advocacy in a major new initiative to move groundbreaking cancer research out of the lab and into the clinic.
Stand Up To Cancer includes:
What is the goal of Stand Up To Cancer?
Simply put, the goal is to raise money to fund the most promising cancer research projects and unite the best scientists who are on the verge of critical discoveries that can provide direct patient benefit in the shortest time possible. SU2C is founded on the belief that currently, in the field of cancer research there is a strong understanding of the basic science of cancer, and with the technologies available, now is the time to take that understanding to the next level by translating this knowledge to the clinic, to real advances in patient care and cancer prevention.
Stand Up To Cancer's innovative approach will bring together the best and brightest investigators from leading institutions across the country and internationally to work in collaborative, multi-disciplinary "Dream Teams" that will pursue the most promising research, accelerating the discovery of new therapies for cancer patients and/or advancing efforts in cancer prevention research. Stand Up To Cancer monies will also be used to support high-risk, high-impact, innovative cancer research proposals which are often not supported by conventional funding sources.
How will donations to Stand Up To Cancer be used?
- 70 percent of SU2C donations will directly fund multi-disciplinary Dream Teams led by highly accomplished scientists committed to translational research. Only with sufficient resources to conduct intense, goal-directed, team-oriented approaches to a cancer problem can the Teams be successful. The more funds raised, the more Dream Teams that can be funded.
- 20 percent of SU2C donations will directly fund innovative, high-risk, high-reward research proposals that have the potential to improve the lives of cancer patients. The hope is that ideas for new Dream Teams will emerge from these novel projects.
- 10 percent of SU2C donations will be invested to endow Stand Up To Cancer to continue its mission of funding cutting-edge research and bringing effective new treatments to cancer patients in the shortest time possible.
How will Stand Up To Cancer donations be distributed?
SU2C funds will support cancer research projects conducted by interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, translational research Dream Teams as well as high-risk Innovative Research Grants. As the scientific partner for Stand Up To Cancer, AACR will conduct expert review of the research projects and grants management via a rigorous yet nimble, rapid and transparent process led by a "Blue Ribbon" Scientific Advisory Committee. The Scientific Advisory Committee is led by Chairperson and Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT; and Vice-Chairpersons, Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D., Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Brian J. Druker, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University Cancer Institute, and includes an additional fifteen highly accomplished senior laboratory researchers and physician-scientists and two advocates (to be elected by the Advocate Advisory Council).
How can I donate to Stand Up to Cancer?
You can visit http://www.standup2cancer.org/ to make a donation to the campaign in a number of ways:
- Make a donation using the online donation form.
- The Constellation: For a dollar donation or more, you can launch a star in honor of anyone who has received a cancer diagnosis.
- Participate in The Stand: An interactive facebook application to illustrate that the cancer community encompasses everyone and that we are all connected by this disease. Through facebook, you will be given the option to give up coffee, movie tickets and other everyday luxuries and donate the amount of money saved to SU2C.