2024 Special Pledge

Joan Font-Burgada

Researching Liver Cancer

The liver is like the offensive line on a football team, when it is functioning properly no one thinks about it; however, the liver is a place where cancers can wait silently until the opportunity arises for them to break loose. Those opportunities include challenges that we all inflict on our livers such as alcohol, obesity, and diabetes, which sharply diminish the liver’s ability to protect us. Shockingly, liver cancer rates have more than tripled since 1980, currently ranks fifth in the world, and accounts for 700,000 deaths annually. Unfortunately, effective treatments have remained elusive. That's where our scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center can help. They are diving into the world of liver cells, studying what happens to them when faced with insults like obesity, which transform the liver from a strong, cancer-resistant organ into a vulnerable, disease-ridden one. Armed with cutting-edge tools and mouse models, they're on a mission to uncover the secrets of how these stealthy cancer cells can be kept in check by learning from our healthy livers. They need your help to kick liver cancer to the curb.

Thank you to our Special Pledge Donors

Diamond
Richard Millham
Catherine Getchell

Ruby
Jim and Sue Anderson
John and Lisa Otto in Honor of Norm Troxel

Sapphire
R. Reginald and Betty Ann Bishop
Louis E and Carol A Della Penna 
Lillian O'Connor
Brian, Liz & Abby Rizor in Memory of Ruth Rizor 
Liz Rizor in Memory of Florence Mitchell
 Liz & Brian Rizor in Memory of Donald Green

Emerald
Norman and Winnie Troxel
Susan Johnson and Jim Flynn
Andrew and Kathleen Krick
Chris and Whitney Chandor
Marianne Brady
Lee Beyer in Memory of Ginny Beyer
Rhea and Jim Brown
Kimberly LaGueux

Opal
Susan Kane
James Coan
Lizanne and Timothy Bernlohr
Anonymous (1)
Kim E. Gronendahl in Memory of Dutch Gronendahl 
The Broad Family in Memory of Jim Peruto
Allison Zimmerman in Memory of Keith Zimmerman

Amethyst
Malcolm Singerman In Memory of Ed O'Connor
Paul and Janet Engstrom
Patricia Whitman
Nancy Koller
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hoffman
Lore and Robert Eichfeld
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Schendler
Barbara O'Donnell In Memory of John V. O'Donnell
Addie (Adelina) Riggione In Memory of Joe Riggione, Jr.
Deborah Lynn Odom
Patricia Walker 
Carolyn Kozakowski 
Elizabeth Ott 
Charlotte Wilkins In Memory of John C. Wilkins, Jr.
Anonymous
Dr. & Mrs. Albert Porreca

Garnet
Anonymous In Honor of Frank A. Welsch
Anonymous (7)
Larry Keller
Mary Lou Lewandowski In Memory of James Lewandowski
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fritz
Christine Rascoll In Memory of William Gruccio
Charlotte Keenan In Memory of Kevin Keenan
Judy and Ken Giaicin
Patricia Bachtle
Anne Ferguson
Drs. Tyma, Bullock & Blessington
Mary and Jim Borthwick
John and Susan Eichert
Eiseman Construction Company, Inc
Rose Mary Gruccio
Steven Hanson
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Quarttron
Matthew & Rachel Swierczewski
Roger & Ginny Riedley

Your Choice Pledge
Cindy Stoughton
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prieto in Memory of Laurence P. Finnegan III
Margaret and Stephen Merjanian
George R and Jean M Hindman
Anonymous
Jane Thomas in Memory of Benjamin M. Thomas III

In Kind Donation
Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center

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