INDIANAPOLIS — The Catherine Peachey Fund, a member of the Heroes Foundation family, has approved a grant proposal to award $45,000 to Richard Carpenter, Ph.D. An Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Carpenter will use the funds to carry out research around one of the most significant and least studied aspects of breast […]
Impact of Catherine Peachey Fund Continues to Flourish By Stephanie Rufenbarger Lesher With so much happening at the Catherine Peachey Fund, we wanted to share some highlights with our loyal supporters. We cannot do our work of funding important breast cancer research in Indiana without you! First up, the Catherine Peachey Fund awarded two exciting […]
African-American women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. The Catherine Peachey Fund has always made funding triple-negative breast cancer a funding priority. There is no targeted therapy for any patient with triple-negative breast cancer, which occurs most often in African-American women and younger women. When the Catherine Peachey […]
Heroes Foundation’s Catherine Peachey Fund Gives Wings to Research Sixteen years ago, Dr. George Sledge asked Connie Rufenbarger, Special Projects Manager of the Catherine Peachey Fund, for a big favor. As a medical oncologist and the director at IU Simon Cancer Center at the time, Sledge had seen firsthand the value of people — breast […]
INDIANAPOLIS — The Heroes Foundation welcomes the Catherine Peachey Fund into the Heroes Foundation family. The arrangement allows the Heroes Foundation to take up the Catherine Peachey Fund torch to promote advances in breast cancer research and treatment by providing financial support to research and programs that are well positioned to move from the bench […]
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