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Things are going swimmingly in Jackson Heights this summer, where parents and youngsters are taking advantage of a program called “Wave Makers” that will provide 2,600 New York City second graders with free swim lessons. The new pilot program is the result of a public-private partnership between the city and nonprofit organizations including Asphalt Green, […]

New York City-based swimmer Adell Sabovic, 22, competed Tuesday in the 100-meter freestyle at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, representing his family’s home country of Kosovo. After his race, he thanked Asphalt Green for his success. Asphalt Green made waves this year when it announced a public-private partnership with the City Council and the Gray Foundation […]

A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade students in public schools in a program announced Thursday aimed at combating antisemitism. The program will allow up to 85,000 students at traditional public schools and charter schools to tour Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage over the next three years, […]

RECENT PRESS

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.

Alejandra Campoverdi forged a path for herself that some only dream of, turning humble beginnings into a life of poise and power. She had been that perfect student who made it to USC and then Harvard against all odds. She turned a volunteer position with then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign into a post at the […]

For the whole month of February, every order on Seamless includes an option to “Donate the Change” to NYC Kids RISE! NYC Kids RISE will be depositing the donated money into the NYC Scholarship Accounts of all current students in the Save for College Program. [pdf-embedder url=”http://grayfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Seamless-letter.pdf”]