WINNER
Banner Alzheimer’s Institute
BAI has undergone a major prevention trial to evaluate a treatment in cognitively healthy older adults at the highest known genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease at older ages. The study is part of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative API, an international collaboration led by BAI to accelerate the evaluation of promising but unproven prevention therapies.
FINALISTS
Banner MD Anderson
Banner MD Anderson spent the year fundraising and innovating for cancer patient treatment. It raised money for a $20 million goal to help with treatments and tests including stem cell transplants, lung cancer screenings, breast cancer drugs manufactured in Arizona, scorpion venom treatments and more.
UA Cancer Center
The UA Cancer Center used the Basic-Clinical Partnerships Research Grant program to support collaborative translational research pilot projects that are led by both a scientist and a clinician. This will fund six teams of investigators on topics including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, brain cancer, myeloma bone disease and lymphoma.
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