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NEWPORT, RI — October 17, 2023 -- Hope Funds for Cancer Research, dedicated to advancing research for the most difficult-to-treat cancers, held a small screening of its recently produced short film, at a private club in New York City, on Monday, October 3rd, raising nearly $60,000 for postdoctoral fellowships. The black-tie event included a discussion with the film makers, Hope Funds Trustees Gary Jobson and Andrew Robertson.
The short film "How To Win A Nobel Prize," directed by Gary Jobson, includes interviews with Hope Funds honorees, who won the Nobel Prize subsequent to receiving the Hope Funds Award of Excellence: James Allison, Ph.D., awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in discovering how the body's immune system can be harnessed to combat cancer; William G. Kaelin, Jr., M.D, awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability; and Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing. In addition, the film features interviews with four Laureates who won the Nobel Prize prior to being awarded the Hope Funds Award of Excellence, Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D., Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., David Baltimore, Ph.D. and Phillip Sharp, Ph.D.
Since its inception in 2006, Hope Funds for Cancer Research has honored 35 distinguished scientists and medical professionals with its Awards of Excellence for Basic Science and Clinical Development, and nine of these remarkable researchers have received the Nobel Prize. Three of these distinguished individuals - Dr. Allison, Dr. Doudna, and Dr. Kaelin - have subsequently been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, or for Chemistry, in three consecutive years.
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