Bring Light: Find a cure for Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

PROJECT

Find a cure for Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

Kirsch Fund for Waldenstrom's Research

Over 1,500 people per year in the United States are diagnosed with Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia, a slow-moving, but incurable blood cancer that kills its victims in 5 to 10 years. The funds you donate will be disbursed based on the recommendations of Steven Treon at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, and other top researchers in this field. Funds will be used for both research and clinical trials.

Number of Donations: 51 | Posted about 1 year ago


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52 donations so far!

Target: $1,000,000.00
Raised so far: $43,995.00

The Charity

Kirsch Fund for Waldenstrom's Research

To find a cure for Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

Bring Light Activity

49 Donors

1 Project since October, 2007

1 Active Project since October, 2007

Charity Info

Based in: Los Altos Hills, California

Year founded: 2007

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Project Info

This project was set up and is administered by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Kirsch shortly after being diagnosed with this disease. Kirsch, one of Silicon Valley's most generous philanthropists, is now dedicating his personal funds to this disease and asking others for help. Please read his story at http://www.skirsch.com/wm/wm.htm. He has consulted with the top researchers in the country and is following their recommendations for how to most effectively and efficiently disburse your donations where they can do the most good. Your donation will be publicly recognized if you like and there will be a page set up with the amount of each grant, which researchers supported the decision, and the researcher's description of why the grant decision was made.

Comments

	Joanne wrote: Thank you for getting this started, Steve. Those of us with WM greatly appreciate your efforts. With this type of fundraising, supporting research in the search for a cure, I'd like to think we'll be around to be grateful decades from now! - Joanne (southern California) Posted about 1 year ago
	Phil wrote: Wishing you well on your new endeavor, Steve. Posted about 1 year ago
	Judith W. wrote: Steve, I am truly grateful that you have started the initiative to find better treatment and maybe even a cure for this disease. I am a retired school teacher, mother of 3, step-mother of 2, grandmother of 8, wife, daughter and sister. I was diagnosed with WM about 5 years ago. I am blessed to be somewhat asymptomatic so far. You give me hope. God bless. Judith Wallace Box Springs, GA Posted 10 months ago