Their visionary gift grows stronger every day At the same time, recognizing that many students will be unable to secure summer jobs to help pay for their education, Hunter is working to make summer offerings more affordable. With a $3 million grant from the Gray Foundation, Joan Brugge, PhD and a team of colleagues from HMS, its affiliate hospitals, and other labs around the world will use various technologies to investigate the minute changes that take place within cells on the road from health to tumorigenesis. 3. Four faculty members from the Perelman School of Medicine have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. Mindy Gray: The ultimate goal of the The Basser Center is eradicating risks from BRCA-related cancers once and for all. Charlotte is the Grants and Operations Associate at the Gray Foundation. OCRF: Tell us about the path that led you and Jon to together create the Basser Research Center with a $25 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania. Dana serves on the Board of Peer Health Exchange and on the President’s Leadership Council and Women’s Leadership Council at Brown University. These students will receive grants that cover the full tuition and expenses associated with attending Penn. Mindy Gray: I have always been impressed with the professionalism and passion that drives both the board and the staff at OCRF. Jon Gray, president and chief operating officer of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms, and his wife, Mindy, recently awarded $1.5 million to fund an important collaboration between Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School aimed at developing non-surgical alternatives for reducing breast cancer risk in women who carry BRCA1 mutations. So, I became a Board Member in 2004, and an Executive Committee Member in 2007. Mindy Gray: My sister Faith had a BRCA 1 gene mutation. The goal is to raise at least $30,000 for the education savings accounts of 900 children attending five nearby schools. Please enjoy this video featuring Dr. Domcheck and the amazing work she has done to advance the care of individuals with BRCA gene mutations. © 2020 OCRA She taught me to talk to animals, especially our crazy cats, she taught me to enjoy Kraft macaroni and cheese at midnight (even when I wasn’t the slightest bit hungry), and she taught me that no walk’s too long if you have a friend by your side. Charissa has served on the boards of Trust for Public Lands - New York, DREAM, and Bronx Children’s Museum. The Center is focused on funding scientific research and giving brilliant research scientists the state-of-the-art facilities and the freedom to discover innovative paths to treatment, prevention and cure. Most of Margaret’s career has been in an administrative capacity related to recruitment. She served as the Executive Director of Teach For America - New York, and the Chief Operating Officer of ExpandED Schools. She holds an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Prev: Under the Microscope: OCRF’s 2012 Research Progress Report New York, Chan School of Public Health in Health Policy and Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Education from Colorado College. All rights reserved. The City University of New York’s Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund, established in the spring to help students facing financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic, has grown by more than $2.25 million, or 70 percent, surpassing $5.5 million in contributions, and awarded $500 grants to 6,000 CUNY students thus far, with funds on hand to help more than 5,000 additional students in coming months. I felt the more I was involved, the more I could help this mission. Thanks to Faith, I was certainly among the only seven-year-olds seeing the movie Annie Hall the day it was released. 20005 Pat Morin is the Scientific Advisor for the Gray Foundation. I am also a Philadelphia native and my parents still live there. But she turned loss into legacy and hurt into hope this year when she and her husband Jon founded the Basser Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania in honor of her sister who succumbed to ovarian cancer at the age of 44. Mindy and Jon Gray are giving the University $10 million to support 10 students from New York City annually. She is a nationally recognized breast and ovarian cancer expert. He is also the President and Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment firms. Into College, Juliet Macur, Former Teach for America Executive Director Charissa L. 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