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After a public preventative double mastectomy earlier this year, ELLE’s own Editor-in-Chief Nina Garcia accepted an honor “not for myself, but for all of the women who are not as fortunate as I am, the women who didn’t have access to genetic counseling, insurance, or a support system…This is for my sisters everywhere.”A video played […]

The Basser Jean Bash raised more than $8.5 million for BRCA research. Jon and Mindy Gray founded the Basser Center for BRCA at the University of Pennsylvania seven years ago to focus on the gene mutations that increase risk for breast, ovarian and other BRCA-related cancers. The Grays have given $55 million, and Blackstone colleagues have chipped […]

Twenty-five years after the discovery of genetic mutations that dramatically increase cancer risk, Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA is building scientific knowledge alongside public awareness about BRCA-related cancers.

A New York Times Opinion piece written by Erika Stallings, the founding co-chairwoman of the Young Leadership Council of the Basser Center for BRCA at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lewis Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a grant from the Gray Foundation to study the genetic mutations that can lead to breast and ovarian cancer, investigating how early-stage precancerous cells can be recognized by the immune system and targeted with preventive or […]

Simpson Thacher is representing the Gray Foundation in connection with the foundation’s donation of $25 million in funding for seven multi-institutional research teams to study new approaches for the early detection, diagnosis and therapy of BRCA-related cancers.

The Gray Foundation has awarded $25 million in funding to seven multi-institute teams conducting research related to the prediction, prevention, and treatment of BRCA-related cancers. [pdf-embedder url=http://grayfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Gray-Foundation-Awards-25M-in-Cancer-Research-Grants-_-GenomeWeb.pdf]

Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, deputy director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pearl Basser Professor for BRCA-Related Research in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, has been awarded a $3 million research grant from the Gray Foundation.

Dr. Charis Eng, chair of Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute, has received a $1.6 million grant from the Gray Foundation.

UT Health San Antonio leads consortium examining loss of DNA repair. Patrick Sung, D.Phil., of UT Health San Antonio, is the principal investigator of a $3.75 million, four-year “team science” grant announced today [July 23] by the Gray Foundation of New York.