Mesothelioma research and other projects supported by Mayo Clinic fundraising effort
For the last five years, the Mayo Clinic ran a fundraising effort called “The Campaign for Mayo Clinic.” They surpassed their $1.25 billion goal last September. When the campaign ended on December 31, 286,000 donors had donated a total of $1.35 billion.
The Mayo Clinic released a list of projects in late January that were made possible by this fundraising effort. One of these projects took place at the Schulze Center for Novel Therapeutics, translating laboratory findings into new methods of cancer treatment. One of the methods they explored was using the measles virus to fight mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure. They also explored using immunotherapy against prostate cancer.
Also funded through this effort is a project concerning individualized medicine. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have been working to unlock genetic information that could help prevent and predict illness and determine which forms of treatment would have the greatest likelihood of success for each patient based on their DNA.
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