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Three Novel Approaches to Curing Cancer Win New Damon Runyon - Rachleff Innovation Award

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 29th, 2008

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced that it has selected the first three recipients of its unique Damon Runyon - Rachleff Innovation Award modeled after venture capital investing to fund young scientists pursuing risky projects that have the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

"Our goal was to find brilliant young investigators with exceptionally original and potentially transformative ideas who did not have the financial support to take these ideas and run with them," said Ronald Levy, MD, chief of oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine and the chair of the scientific advisory committee for...

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