The rationale for creating IF was to pool
San Diego’s community resources,
advancing these local research programs
faster and creating both the research
and institutional infrastructure to enable
long-term growth and progress. Over
the past 4 years, and with $4.7M in
co-fundraised research dollars between
these institutions, IF has helped its
research partners to procure an
additional $20M in grants; constructed
a state-of-the art human cell processing
laboratory, capable of supporting novel
clinical trials; enabled recruitment of an
award-winning scientific team; created
a research platform for new precision
immunotherapy treatments, including
an ongoing cancer vaccine trial, and
brought a novel adoptive cell therapy to
clinical trial readiness.
But these leaps forward against cancer
require substantial financial support
to sustain – and IF has organized the
perfect event to rally the community
for this life-changing cause. Rock &
Roll Avalanche will take place on
September 21, 2019 and feature the
iconic Billy Idol.
Billy Idol
Rock & Roll Avalanche has been instrumental in raising funds for the local
non-profit Immunotherapy Foundation which is making tremendous advances
in cancer research and prevention. It was in 2014 that the Whitworth family
got the news that any family dreads – the recurrence and metastasis of Ralph
Whitworth’s HPV-related oral cancer, driven by a 20-year-old dormant viral
infection. Determined to change the grim odds for other families facing this
disease, the Whitworths launched Immunotherapy Foundation (IF) in 2015,
a non-profit created to expand their philanthropic support of breakthrough
cancer immunotherapy research at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and
the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.
www.JoinIF.org
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