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Team SBP raises more than $30,000—and counting—for cancer research at Padres Pedal the Cause

AuthorMonica May
Date

November 27, 2018

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More than 60 scientists, staff and supporters of Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) ran, walked, biked and volunteered to raise critical funding for local cancer research at the 2018 Padres Pedal the Cause fundraising event. The team joined more than 2,500 individuals, including San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, with a shared vision: a world without cancer. 

Nearly everyone’s life has been touched by cancer, and this was no different for the individuals on team SBP. Some team members participated in honor of loved ones who had successfully beaten cancer—or had survived cancer themselves. Others joined to support research that will yield the cutting-edge cancer treatments of the future—such as personalized therapies, immunotherapies (medicines that harness an individual’s own immune system) and more. 

Nick Cosford, PhD, a cancer survivor himself and deputy director of SBP’s NCI-designated Cancer Center, took the stage to explain how Padres Pedal the Cause funding has sparked discoveries at SBP—such as allowing a potential pancreatic cancer treatment to enter clinical trials. Seed funding provided by events such as Padres Pedal the Cause enables SBP scientists to complete the work required before applying for larger research grants, such as those from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Fundraising isn’t over—donations are accepted until December 8—but to date, team SBP has raised more than $31,000. 

Want to help Padres Pedal the Cause meet its fundraising goal of $3 million? Support our team. 

Read the San Diego Union-Tribune’s story about the event. Or see the team in action! 
 

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Padres Pedal the Cause presents largest annual contribution to cancer research

AuthorSusan Gammon
Date

January 26, 2018

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Padres Pedal the Cause presented a check for $2,401,523.00 on Wednesday, January 24 to leaders from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego. The funds represent the total amount raised by Padres Pedal teams and participants in the November 2017 cycling event. It’s the largest annual contribution in the five-year history of the organization.

100% of the proceeds raised by Padres Pedal the Cause stay in San Diego to fund collaborative research to find ways to both prevent and treat every type of cancer—with the hope of ultimately finding cures.

SBP has been an active participant in the annual two-day cycling fundraiser since it began in 2013. We recruit cyclists, provide water and entertainment during the ride, and have been the grateful recipient of funding for research on melanoma,pancreatic, breast and colon cancer.

From all of us at SBP, thank you to all the riders, survivors, sponsors, volunteers, doctors, researchers, families and friends who helped raise money for critical cancer research.

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Padres Pedal the Cause is a rousing success for SBP

AuthorHelen Hwang
Date

November 20, 2017

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On November 11 and 12, Padres Pedal the Cause had a record number of riders, on track to increase funds in the fight against cancer.

                                    

“The event was a tremendous success. It’s particularly important for SBP as the grants that come from Pedal the Cause allow us to collaborate with clinical researchers on truly translational projects, often involving patients,” said Garth Powis, D.Phil., director of the NCI-designated Cancer Center at SBP.  

 

About 20 SBP volunteers provided a water station, food break and a hopping photo booth for a welcome break for riders as they pedaled past SBP on North Torrey Pines Road. In the fifth annual cycling event, the riders also coasted over the breathtaking Coronado Bay Bridge for the first time.

 

“We also had a team of riders, including six researchers. SBP is proud to have raised more than $130,000 over the past four years,” said Dr. Powis.

 

The event raises money to find a cure for cancer by funding four major world-class research institutions in San Diego, including SBP, as well as Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. Padres Pedal funds projects representing the latest in innovative, collaborative cancer research. To date, Padres Pedal has raised over $4.75 million and funded 19 collaborative research projects at four beneficiaries, including SBP. 

 

“We’ve already surpassed last year’s 1,500 registered participants,” said Anne Marchand, executive director of Padres Pedal.

 

Last February, Marchand presented a check for more than $2 million to researchers. Funded collaborative research projects with SBP investigators focused on a wide array of cancers, including B-cell lymphomas, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and T-cell immunotherapies.

 

Cancer is a disease that affects us all, accounting for one in four U.S. deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

 

Check out the YouTube video from the 2017 Padres Pedal the Cause event. 

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SBP researchers awarded Padres Pedal the Cause collaborative grants

AuthorSusan Gammon
Date

July 31, 2017

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Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Research (SBP) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded five collaborative grants with the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. The collaborative research projects are focused on cancers including B-cell lymphomas, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer and breast cancer. The awards are part of the $750,000 being distributed from proceeds raised by the 2016 cycling event.

“I am proud of our scientists and our partnership with Padres Pedal the Cause,” says Garth Powis, D. Phil., director of SBP’s NCI-designated Cancer Center. “Since its inception, Pedal the Cause has focused on creating a community event that engages cyclists and volunteers to raise money to advance innovative cancer research. We look forward to using these grants to make advances in our labs that will hopefully impact the health of cancer patients now and in the future.”

In November 2016, more than 1,500 riders, hundreds of volunteers, donors and sponsors took part in the cycling event. SBP was pleased to host water station for riders during the event, and many riders even stopped to take fun photos in front of our SBP bright orange backdrop.

SBP’s funded projects are listed below:

• “Oncogenic Regulation of B-Lymphomagenesis by the Chromatin Modulator DOT1L”
Bing Ren, PhD (Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health) Aniruddha Deshpande, PhD (Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center)

• “Decoding Colon Cancers Using Boolean Principles”
Pradipta Ghosh, MD (Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health) Debashis Sahoo, PhD (Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health), Manuel Perucho, PhD (Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center)

• “An Over-Expressed GPCR in Pancreatic Cancer Associated Fibroblasts as a Novel Therapeutic Target”
Paul Insel, MD (Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health) Kristiina Vuori, MD, PhD (Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center)

• “Identification of Genes Critical for the Production of T-cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for Development of “Off-the-Shelf” T-cells Immunotherapies”
Dan S. Kaufman, MD, PhD (Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health) Sumit K. Chanda, PhD (Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center)

• “Targeting Cellular Mechanotransduction in Breast Cancer Metastasis”
Jing Yang, PhD (Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health) Elena Pasquale, PhD (Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center)

The fifth annual Padres Pedal the Cause event takes place November 11-12, 2017, at Petco Park and will feature courses of various distances for all skill levels, a stationary bike zone, virtual riding, a children’s ride as well as numerous volunteer opportunities for all those who want to make a difference in the fight against cancer.

Registration for the 2017 event is open. New this year, Padres Pedal is only the second cycling event to ride over the Coronado Bay Bridge.

For more information and registration please visit www.gopedal.org 

Join us on this year’s ride as a rider or volunteer. We’d love to have you on the team! Register today: Team SBP – Sanford Burnham Prebys 

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At Pedal the Cause, Team SBP rode 787 miles for cancer research in San Diego

AuthorJessica Moore
Date

November 16, 2016

Part of Team SBP at Petco Park. From left: James Short, Lix Schwarzbach, Marco Maruggi

Over a blisteringly hot November weekend, scientists, staff, and supporters of Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute came together to support the fight against cancer. They participated in the fourth annual Pedal the Cause bike ride and fundraising event that raised over $1.6 million. The money will be used to fund joint collaborative cancer research projects among scientists from SBP, the Salk, Rady Children’s Hospital and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego.

Our team’s nine riders biked a collective 787 miles over hilly terrain, raising almost $17,000. Some, like graduate student Marisa Sanchez, were inspired to ride by their personal experience with cancer. “I ride to honor my sister, Alessandra, who we lost to cancer four years ago,” said Sanchez in a video interview. “Research is crucial to advance cancer care—the treatments that are being developed now might have saved her life.”

Team SBP also ran a refueling station, where our volunteers helped the event’s 1,500 riders take a much needed break Sunday morning. In addition to water, snacks, and shade, the SBP station provided a fun disco-themed photo booth, complete with 70s-era tunes, in honor of the Institute’s 40th anniversary.

Local news station CW6 was on site to interview riders and scientists, including SBP’s Cosimo Commisso, PhD, assistant professor in the NCI-designated Cancer Center, who emphasized the importance of adequate funding to accelerate progress towards cures.

Commisso was part of a team that was awarded a grant from Pedal the Cause in 2014. That collaboration with Geoffrey Wahl, PhD, at the Salk and Andrew Lowy, MD, at Moores Cancer Center focused on pancreatic cancer, the most deadly common cancer in the U.S., and yielded breakthrough findings that could lead to a new treatment approach. The money raised this year will support similarly innovative, high-impact research that can be rapidly translated into new hope for cancer patients.

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New grants from Pedal the Cause will advance cancer research

Authorjmoore
Date

April 21, 2016

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Pedal the Cause today presented $1,300,000 in grant funding to four San Diego research institutions to fund seven collaborative research projects. The check presentation was made by Pedal the Cause Executive Director Jay Indovino during a press conference at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego this morning. Continue reading “New grants from Pedal the Cause will advance cancer research”

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Happy Holidays from Sanford-Burnham!

Authorpbartosch
Date

December 23, 2014

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As the year draws to a close, we look back on Sanford-Burnham’s many achievements in 2014. Over the year, our scientists published numerous papers in high-profile journals; secured significant grant funding; partnered with companies, institutes, and nonprofit organizations from across the country and the globe; and they took important steps toward our ultimate goal – to have a tangible impact on human health. Here are 14 accomplishments of 2014 that we are proud to share with you: Continue reading “Happy Holidays from Sanford-Burnham!”