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Health Organizations Team Up To Fund Blood Cancer Research

Post author By admin
Post date July 16, 2019

A researcher using a microscope. — Photo credit: Shutterstock

Three leading health organizations—the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group—have joined forces to find a cure for blood cancer. Each organization contributed $1.5 million to the LLS Blood Cancer Discoveries Grants Program, a newly established fund dedicated to advancing the medical community’s understanding of […]

Tags blood cancer, grants, leukemia, LLS, lymphoma, research

Resources

DKMS: ending the Fight Against Blood Cancer

Post author By admin
Post date November 22, 2012

Every year, millions of people struggle to win the fight against blood cancer. DKMS is an organization that began with one girl’s heart-wrenching experience of watching her mother fight and lose that battle. Katharina Harf was just thirteen when her mother, Mechtild, was diagnosed with acute leukemia. Mechtild was told she could be saved by […]

Tags Andres Santo Domingo, blood cancer, DKMS, Heidi Klum, Lauren Santo Domingo

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