Stand Up To Cancer
An entertainment-industry charity that funds multi-institution Dream Teams, with AACR as scientific partner, to move discoveries into trials quickly.
Founded in 2008 by film and television leaders, Stand Up To Cancer raises money through televised specials and channels it through the American Association for Cancer Research, its scientific partner, into Dream Teams that bring institutions together around a single translational goal with milestone-based funding. Dream Teams have covered prostate cancer (with the Prostate Cancer Foundation), pancreatic cancer (with the Lustgarten Foundation), lung cancer, paediatric cancer, immunotherapy and early detection, and SU2C also funds Innovative Research Grants and a Health Equity Initiative to diversify trial enrolment. Stand Up To Cancer Canada and UK partnerships extend the model.
- Dream Teams (prostate, pancreatic, lung, paediatric, immunotherapy)
- Innovative Research Grants
- Health Equity Initiative
- Televised fundraising
Co-developed imatinib's successor dasatinib and the prostate drug enzalutamide, and explained how cancers resist targeted drugs.
Built the pancreatic cancer organoid models now used to test drugs against a patient's own tumour.
Defined how prostate cancer trials are run and read, from PSA working-group criteria to circulating tumour cell biomarkers.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- InstitutionBarts Cancer Institute / Barts Health NHS Trust
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Cancer Research UK, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Prostate cancer.
- InstitutionEuropean Association for Cancer Research
Shares American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), The valley of death between lab and product, Cancer Research UK.
- InstitutionThe Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
Shares American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), The valley of death between lab and product, Cancer Research UK.
- ProductEnzalutamide
Shares Howard I. Scher, Charles L. Sawyers, Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Prostate cancer.
- InstitutionMays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio
Shares American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
- IdeaDedicated cohorts for patients with performance status 2 in first-line trials
Shares Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
- IdeaFund investigators from under-represented communities and community sites to lead trials
Shares American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Trials do not represent the people who get cancer.
- ProductApalutamide
Shares Charles L. Sawyers, Prostate cancer.