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Team Hope Tackles the 2025 Tour de Scottsdale

Team Hope Rides (Again) for Cancer Research at the Tour de Scottsdale For the second year in a row, Mayo Clinic physician Dr. Parminder Singh has organized a team of riders to raise funds for cancer research while tackling the 32- or 62-mile routes of the Tour de Scottsdale. Singh is a clinical trialist with …

Progress Made and the Importance of Research Funding

Dear Friends, At the end of February, SWOG’s operations and statistical teams submitted applications for the renewal of their core NCI grants. This is a significant undertaking requiring many hours of cooperative analysis and reporting which occurs every six years. This year, of course, the landscape for federal research funding is entirely uncertain, and we’re …

Singh and Puri Awarded Newest Career Engagement Award, Coltman Fellowship

Newly Announced: More Hope Career Awards to sustain Innovative Research Dr. Sonam Puri from the Moffitt Cancer Center has been awarded a prestigious Coltman Fellowship to support her leadership of S2503: A Randomized Phase II Study of Atezolizumab and JBI-802 Versus Investigator’s Choice of Standard of Care for Previously Treated Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung …

Latest Mentorship, Training Awards Announced

New Crowley Award and Early Stage Investigators Selected We’re honored to announce the 2024 recipient of the John Crowley, PhD Award is Subodh Selukar, PhD. Selukar is an early career Biostatistics faculty member at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. His winning proposal titled “Toward cure models for clinical trials: applications to small-sample oncology trials with rare …

Next Generation Fund: Submit a Proposal for 2025 Funding

Submit A Request To The Next Generation Fund: Annual Call For Novel Funding Requests Now Open Every year on the first of June, we open our application inviting SWOG members and their collaborators to submit new requests to tackle unmet needs across our trials network. Other Hope programs fund direct research. This project application gathers …

Hope Foundation Announces Goodman for Inaugural Meyskens Lecture

The Hope Foundation has recently established the Frank and Linda Meyskens Annual Endowed Lectureship on Advances in Cancer Prevention. Since the early 1980’s, Dr. Meyskens has been a leader in the recognition, development, and clinical usage of Prevention in the management of cancer. Frank and Linda have directed the development of this lectureship to advance …

New for the New Year: Program and Award Announcements

The Hope Foundation is honored to offer a new lectureship in 2024, to bring back a special Mentorship opportunity, and to announce our latest funding awards. Hope Launches The Frank and Linda Meyskens Annual Endowed Lectureship on Advances in Cancer Prevention Thanks to the vision and generosity of the Meyskens family, The Hope Foundation is …

Generation of Impact Celebrated at Fall Group Meeting

Thank you for listening, learning, collaborating, and sharing new ideas at the fall 2023 SWOG group meeting in Chicago. The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research is honored to have supported committee sessions and special events as we celebrated our 30th anniversary. If you missed our special exhibit at the meeting, you can find materials online: …

Listen To Hope’s 30th Anniversary Audio Collection

Listen To Hope’s 30th Anniversary Audio Collection All in one place and for your listening enjoyment! Below are collected conversations with various SWOG and Hope leadership, as well as recipients of Hope grant support. Thank you to all of these wonderful individuals who shared their time and stories as a part of our 30th anniversary …

Submit a Request to the Next Generation Fund

Submit a Request to the Next Generation Fund: Annual Call For Novel Funding Requests Now Open Now through September 1, SWOG members and their collaborators are encouraged to submit great ideas for improving all aspects of our cancer research network. SWOG and Hope Foundation staff are welcome to apply.  Other Hope programs fund direct research. This …

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