The Heroes Foundation Funds Innovative Research to Treat Children With Rare Brain Cancers

Researchers at IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center are working to discover new treatments that could translate to the clinic more quickly and inexpensively than traditional drug development processes. What if drugs existed that could help treat children with rare brain tumors, but they weren’t being prescribed to these young patients? Researchers at IU Simon Comprehensive […]

Heroes Foundation Empowers Ambitious Notre Dame Researcher With $25K

Katharine White, Ph.D., pursues better diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to address cancer metastasis at the Harper Cancer Research Institute in South Bend The Heroes Foundation recently announced a $25,000 commitment to Katharine White, Ph.D., an ambitious researcher studying how intracellular pH dynamics regulate proteins, pathways and cancer cell behaviors. White is the Clare Boothe Luce […]

The Heroes Foundation welcomes James Hinshaw as new Chair of Board of Directors

The Heroes Foundation is pleased to welcome James Hinshaw as the new Chair of the Heroes Foundation Board of Directors. James was introduced to the Heroes Foundation through his colleague Briana Clark of Dentons Bingham Greenebaum. He has served the foundation for many years as a board member and assumes this new role today. James, […]

Heroes Foundation Provides Play-Inspiring Room to Support Pediatric Cancer Patients

Nick and Elizabeth Keller took an elevator up to the third floor of Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital and stepped across the threshold of a new space that looked nothing like a typical hospital room. The Kellers were familiar with hospital rooms. They had spent two difficult years in and out of them after their 8-year-old […]

Paying It Forward for the Indiana Cancer Community

The actual phrase pay it forward is believed to have been coined by author Lily Hardy Hamond in her novel “In the Garden of Delight,” where she wrote, “You don’t pay love back: you pay it forward.” Like love, paying it forward means doing something good for someone without expecting anything in return. It doesn’t […]