Partnership for Cures and Dr. Bruce Bloom were featured in Ted Pincus's financial column in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 6th 2010. 

 

-A mild, unassuming Chicagoan is a soft-spoken dynamo who has been single-handedly changing the economics of American health care.  Dr. Bruce Bloom and his Partnership for Cures has been asking the nation's medical profession this question: After the pharmas and taxpayers have spent billions for the development of new drugs to tackle specific diseases, can't these now be cheaply recycled by imaginative researchers to perform additional breakthroughs for "orphan" diseases that are still taking thousands of lives each year...full story

Thursday April 15 wasn't just tax day-it was the Dare2Dream Blues Traveler benefit concert to support juvenile diabetes research at Partnership for Cures. 

Over a thousand people turned out to listen to music, watch a presentation and video from PFC and Friends United for Juvenile Diabetes Research, and bid on the silent auction items. A few lucky guests got to meet the band. 

Our thanks to Jeff, Jade, Madilynn and everyone else at  Platform-1 Entertainment for creating, underwriting and organizing the event, our Board members Bobby and Lori Miller for sponsoring the event, and Jerry and Connie Paris, Steve Goldsher and Steve Braun for attending and bringing their friends, the Blues Traveler band for believing in such a great cause, Friends United Against Juvenile Diabetes for being committed to raising funds and awareness to find a cure. 

 

And our gratitude to the Exsulin Corporation, Mayo Clinic and McGill University for undertaking the first Phase II human patients' trial of the Exsulin molecule that can regrow pancreas producing cells!   

To see pictures from the event please click here!

To watch the video shown at the concert click here!

Cravat Foundation- We are in discussions with Dr. Guy Weinberg of CRAVAT foundation (Center for Research and Analysis of Vascular Tumors) to create a funding partnership to support a very interesting project in a rare disease. Dr. Weinberg of the University of Illinois at Chicago was referred to us by our funded researcher Dr. Doug Feinstein. Dr. Weinberg's son has a rare blood vessel tumor that might have an interesting cause. The disease, EHE, behaves less like a typical cancer because in that it doesn't respond to either chemotherapy or radiation and metastases don't seem to affect the outcome. It does behave more like a chronic infection such as TB. Dr. Weinberg did some research to determine that EHE might be caused by the bacteria Bartonella, which causes a similar looking disease in the HIV patients. This hypothesis is testable and suggests a possible quick, safe and affordable potential treatment: antibiotics.

Our Mission

Partnership for Cures raises funds for Rediscovery Research™ that reuses, recombines and reapplies existing science and medicine to quickly, safely and affordably create new treatments for patients with catastrophic diseases who need help NOW!

Together we can help create fast, safe and effective treatments for those suffering from disease while they are still able to benefit!

 

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