How Can You Help in the Fight Against Blood Cancers?

Donate to the Blood Cancer Research Fund

In June, 2008 the BCRF received a matching grant from an ACOR member of $250,000 for the purpose of accelerating BCRF’s vaccine therapy research for improved immune response results. If every ACOR member joined together in this effort and make a donation for just $10.00 a month, each month for the next twelve months, ACOR members could match that grant. If ACOR members asked their families and friends to contribute to the Blood Cancer Research Fund on their behalf on occasions when gifts are exchanged as symbols of affection, this would also help reach that goal. All contributions are tax-deductible.


The BCRF continues to make numerous contributions to blood cancer research and cancer in general:

    • Discovery of the how Zap-70, an intracellular protein, that can be used as a useful prognostic factor in determining the aggresiveness of CLL.
    • The first laboratory to understand the microenvironment of leukemic cells and how the "nurse-like" cells support them.
    • Leadership of the national consortium of 7 prestigious universities studying he causes and treatment of CLL. Member scientists are amoung the most prominent investigators in the field.
    • Conducted the first human gene therapy trials
    • Intra-Nodal Gene therapy trials (expanding to multi-site injections)
    • Key member of the researchers involved in familial cancer research
    • Prinicipal investigators of a new breakthrough research effort using nanotechnology in the early diagnosis and treatement of early stage cancers.

 

Donations to Blood Cancer Research Fund:

There are three options for donating to the Blood Cancer Research Fund:

  1. Make a secure on-line donation by clicking here
  2. For using regular mail you can download and print the the BCRF brochure
  3. Request a brochure by contacting the BCRF administrator

University of California, San Diego
Blood Cancer Research Fund
Attn: BCRF Administrator c/o Alex Ramirez
3855 Health Sciences Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0820
(858) 822-5635 phone
(858) 534-5560 fax