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2019 Winter Newsletter - Special Edition
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TBBCF Scientific Advisory Board awards $400,000 to four breast cancer researchers
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Dear Supporters,
What a great start to the new year!
 We have awarded four fellowships to researchers working at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.
You can read about their backgrounds ... they all happen to be women ... and their promising research in this newsletter, via our social media channels and on our website.
Our Scientific Advisory Board did a remarkable job of reading and evaluating more than 25 applications for the four $100,000 grants and choosing the top four. We are excited to see where their research takes them and hope to stop into their labs this year to see how they are progressing. We will keep you updated.
This month we also welcome Gabrielle Gualtieri, the new outreach coordinator for the Scientific Advisory Board. In the volunteer position Gabby will be the liaison between the board and the 2019 fellows. Her mother is Stacey Gualtieri, founding treasurer of TBBCF.
We end this special edition with an invitation to you from one of our top supporters, Big Y Supermarkets, to participate in a special February promotion.
For several years, TBBCF has benefited from Big Y Supermarket's Partners of Hope breast cancer awareness month campaign. This latest promotion serves as a great reminder that our loyal supporters make it possible for us to fund breast cancer research.
Best regards,
Sandy Maniscalco
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TBBCF funds four grants for breast cancer research
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By KATHLEEN EDGECOMB
 The Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation has awarded $400,000 in research grants to four women who are trying to find a cure for breast cancer and are searching for better ways to treat those who are diagnosed with cancer.
"There is an energy and intelligence from each of these researchers that would hearten any patient benefactor," said Nicholas Saccomano, chairman of the TBBCF Scientific Advisory Board.
The 2019 fellows are Veerle Daniels and Ana C. Garrido-Castro of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Jing Hu of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Laura Spring of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.
"These four fellows represent for this foundation an enviable blend of early detection, clinical science and translational research, therapeutic discovery, and fundamental cancer biology research" said Saccomano. "Few organizations are as privileged as ours to have the opportunity to support scientific inquiry and promising careers at remarkable institutions across a continuum of activities that will ease the burden of breast cancer in our time."
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By SANDY MANISCALCO
The idea of funding breast cancer research requires technical expertise to analyze and develop funding mechanisms, a fluency in the sciences, and especially, a vision of the future: a gaze toward the novel therapies and people who might unravel the mysteries of breast cancer and therefore promoting therapies to combat the disease.
The founding Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) volunteered to lead this mission while pursuing their own demanding careers as scientists, business leaders, and scientific researchers. In the past 13 years, the SAB has awarded 4.4M in research dollars to fund new efforts to eradicate breast cancer.
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College student is link between researchers and scientific advisory board
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By KATHLEEN EDGECOMB
 Gabrielle Gualtieri was 10 or 11 when she first became involved with the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation. She remembers handing out drinks, snacks and candy with her family to participants during the annual Walk Across Southeastern Connecticut fundraiser.
"The marathon was my favorite day of the year when I was younger," said the now 21-year-old, who is the new assistant to the non-profit's Scientific Advisory Board.
In the volunteer position, Gualtieri will work with the advisory board as it assesses applications from around the country from doctors and scientists applying for TBBCF's research grants. The annual grants are awarded to up-and-coming researchers who are studying, and trying to find a cure, for breast cancer.
She is the primary contact for public relations and communications activities throughout the grant process, acting as a liaison between the doctors on the advisory board and those applying for the grants. Full story
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Big Y is spreading TBBCF message
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In February, Big Y in Groton will donate $1 to the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation for every reusable grocery bag it sells at the checkout line.
TBBCF has been chosen by the Big Y at 955 Poqunnock Road, as the latest non-profit to benefit from the Community Bag Program. This means that for the entire month of February, TBBCF gets a $1 donation every time a community bag is sold.
The program, which began in January, features a reusable community bag with a Giving Tag that allows a customer to direct the donation to TBBCF. Each month a new non-profit is featured.
TBBCF was chosen by the store leadership as the February beneficiary.
So help the environment by using reusable bags and show support to TBBCF, which gives 100 percent of its fundraising dollars directly to research to find a cure for breast cancer.
For several years, TBBCF has benefited from Big Y Supermarket's annual Partners of Hope Breast Cancer Awareness Month Campaign raising thousands for TBBCF.
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