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NRG Announces New Partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Los Angeles, CA - (September 13, 2019) - NRG announced The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the global leader in the fight to end blood cancer, as the team’s new charitable partner through 2020. The collaboration reaches across the entire NRG organization and its subsequent teams and starts just in time for Blood Cancer Awareness Month in September and LLS’s 70th anniversary. “I’m thrilled about this...
2K Announces Global Partnership for WWE® 2K20 with LLS®
(New York, NY – September 10, 2019) – 2K announced today that the Company will partner with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) as part of its WWE® 2K20 global marketing campaign, to support breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and critical support for patients and their families. The partnership aligns with 2K’s selection of WWE 2K20 cover Superstar and leuk...
A $100 Million Initiative to Fuel the Next Generation of Cancer Research
View full multimedia release here. Rye Brook, NY – (August 28, 2019) Blood Cancer Awareness Month in September provides an opportunity to remind the public about the urgent need to support research to find cures, and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is marking the occasion with a reinvigorated focus on helping children with cancer live better, longer lives. LLS announced today it has more t...
LLS Is Driving Progress To Ease The Pain Of High Cancer Care Costs For Patients
View full multimedia release here. (Rye Brook, N.Y. August 7, 2019) – The cost of cancer care continues to rise at an alarming rate and is projected to reach $173 billion by 2020, a 39 percent increase from a decade ago. A growing portion of these costs are being shifted to patients. As a result, some patients are delaying or even forgoing potentially lifesaving cancer treatment. The Leukemia &am...
LLS Funds New and Innovative Research
Rye Brook, NY (July 18, 2019) –The Snowdome Foundation and Leukaemia Foundation joined forces with America's The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to fund four blood cancer research projects with Australian researchers through the LLS Translational Research Program. LLS funds new and innovative research that shows high promise for translating basic biomedical knowledge to clinical application. Leu...
Advancing Leading Edge Cancer Research in a $4.5 Million Collaboration
(Rye Brook, NY – July 11, 2019) A three-way $4.5 million collaboration launched this month between The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, and The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group will drive an innovative new funding initiative to propel cutting-edge research to unleash the next wave of novel cancer therapies. LLS, which has invested nearly $1.3 billion in cancer research...
Philanthropic Competition Unleashes the Power of Turning Grief into Passion
2019 National Man & Woman of the Year Winners, Robert Hope and Nancy Hamlin. Rye Brook, NY (July 10, 2019) – They both live in the same city, Charlotte, NC, but their commonality is much more profound – he nearly lost his life to cancer, and she’s made it her mission to make sure nobody has to endure the pain of losing a loved one to cancer. Robe...
How One Family’s Loss 70 Years Ago Inspires Students to Fight Cancer Today
(Rye Brook, NY, June 19, 2019) – The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) was founded 70 years ago by parents who lost their 16-year-old son to leukemia. Today, 1,000s of passionate, resourceful and driven high school students across the country are reinventing LLS for a new generation, as they honor the legacy of an organization founded by a family for families. Through their participation in LLS’s ...