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Fall 2016 : MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Moon Shots ProgramTM

MD Anderson Cancer Center's Moon Shots Program™

MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Moon Shots Program™ is a results-oriented, patient-driven, comprehensive effort to reduce cancer deaths and transform cancer care.

Launched in 2012, MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program™ is a comprehensive initiative to significantly reduce cancer deaths and transform cancer care. Moon shot teams pursue innovative projects prioritized for greatest patient impact, and specialized platforms provide infrastructure, systems and strategy. Moon shot efforts will help support all other cancer research at MD Anderson. Funding is from private philanthropy, institutional earnings, competitive research grants and commercialization of new discoveries. The White House Cancer Moonshot, led by Vice President Joe Biden, aligns with the program to accelerate progress in the fight against cancer.

13 AREAS OF FOCUS

As of Oct. 31, private philanthropic commitments to the program total $400 million.

More Stories From Promise

MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors adds nine new members

The MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors, an appointed board of volunteers charged with advancing MD Anderson's mission to end cancer, welcomed nine new members at its Nov. 11 annual meeting. The new group reflects the board's national and international presence.

Mattress Mack donates $500,000 to cancer research

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M.D. Anderson Foundation funds neurodegeneration research

Hope for Alzheimer's

Giving a Baer hug to MD Anderson

Floridians Elaine and Bobby Baer show their gratitude

About MD Anderson's Colorectal Cancer Moon Shot

MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Colorectal Cancer Moon Shot aims to reduce colon cancer deaths by 30% over the next 10 years

My Colorectal Cancer Moon Shot

Amy Scarbrough, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, is a loving mother and a three-year survivor of colorectal cancer (CRC).

MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors Chair Jim Mulva

Jim Mulva began his two-year term as chair of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors on Sept. 1. Mulva was CEO of ConocoPhillips from 2002 until he retired in 2012. He began his energy career at Phillips Petroleum in 1973. Mulva and his wife of 47 years, Miriam, are members of the Anderson Assembly, an organization honoring donors who have made lifetime commitments of $1 million or more to MD Anderson. The Miriam and Jim Mulva Conference Center at MD Anderson is named in recognition of their $5 million gift to support melanoma research.

Cancer survivor grateful for cancer treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center

Survivor Mark Rolfing applies golf wisdom to cancer

MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors member shares family's story of cancer survivorship

Wayne Gibbens has been a member of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors (BOV) since 1981. He and his wife, Beth, live in Middleburg, Virginia.

Teenage baker makes sweet donation in honor of grandmother

Emily Caplan raises $10,000 through cookbook sales

2016 Rogers Award honors excellence in cancer prevention

Educator, clinician and researcher helps advance tobacco cessation

Boot Walk to End Cancer™

Conversation With a Living Legend® in Dallas raises $730,000 for MD Anderson Cancer Center

Living Legend luncheon in Dallas honors 'father of aerobics'

Lemonade stand raises money for breast cancer research

The carefree days of summer are anything but for Lily Deagan, 11, and Lucy Keith, 10, of Victoria, Texas. The two friends who share a love of sports and a passion for helping others decided to open a lemonade stand this past summer. The goal? Raise money for cancer research. In a few hours, the girls raised $220 for breast cancer research at MD Anderson, a place they say is near and dear to their hearts.