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An Overview of the 2008 Komen Grants Slate

Komen for the Cure expanded the types of requests for applications it issues from two to four this year and unveiled its new Promise Grants, which promote collaboration between basic and clinical researchers and different institutions to speed the discovery and delivery of the cures. The awards provide up to $1.5 million per year over five years to address major issues critical to breast cancer. Promise Grants also provide unique opportunities for individuals or corporate partners to make direct investments in breast cancer research.

"Many individuals and corporate partners share Susan G. Komen for the Cure's sense of urgency in discovering and delivering the cures and finding ways to prevent breast cancer. Promise Grants allow donors to act on strong philanthropic impulses and essentially have a direct hand in writing a significant chapter in breast cancer research history," said Dr. Eric P. Winer, Susan G. Komen for the Cure's chief scientific advisor and leader of the organization's Scientific Advisory Board.

This year, Komen is funding seven Promise Grants focused on estrogen-negative breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer, the effects of obesity on the progression of breast cancer, molecular targets of treatment response, the development of hormonal therapies tailored to individual tumor and patient characteristics and the treatment of HER2-driven breast cancer.

Komen for the Cure is funding more than $35 million in Promise Grants for 2008.

Along with the new Promise Grants, Komen for the Cure this year launched its Career Catalyst Research grants -- a new award mechanism that provides support for particularly promising young investigators to make the critical transition from training to scientific independence in breast cancer research. The awards offer $300,000 per year for two years, with option of an additional, pe
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