Joseph E. Walther Hall, Indiana University’s largest research building, houses most of the cancer center’s researchers.
Voices lead. Lives change. Hope endures.
Adversity can often be the very thing that causes a great idea to be born. In 1993, Mary Beth Gadus, in the midst of her own fight with metastatic breast cancer, was listening to a lecture by a pioneering breast cancer researcher, Dr. Judah Folkman, who was describing his frustration with the continued rejection of his theory of angiogenesis — killing a tumor by cutting off its blood supply — and how that rejection deprived him of grant funding to further his research. After 21 rejections, he finally got his grant and his work advanced treatment of cancer. His dogged persistence prevailed, but he wondered how many lives could have been extended had he received his research funding sooner and how many other scientists with viable “hunches” would never be able to test those hunches for lack of funding.
It has been my pleasure to work with these wonderful and dedicated people in the fight against Breast Cancer of which I am a survivor. Twenty-Five percent of heart sales is donated every year to this incredible organization. Hearts which are included in the donation are included in the category ‘Hearts for Hope‘ under Jewelry Gallery in the list in the left column.
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