Every breakthrough began with a moment no one saw.
We fund the quiet, unglamorous hours — pipettes clicking, data sets growing, grant applications rewritten at midnight.
The people behind the pipettes,
and the people waiting for them.
“We didn't know what to do with hope when the oncologist first used that word. We just kept showing up — to appointments, to fundraisers, to this. Because what else do you do with love when medicine hasn't caught up yet.”
Diane Okafor
Mother. Daughter diagnosed at 11.
Active Research Programs
23
across 9 disease categories
“My lab runs on grants that take eighteen months to land. In between, Cure has covered three months of cell culture costs twice. That's the difference between a dataset that means something and one that doesn't.”
Dr. Priya Mehta
Postdoctoral Researcher, Johns Hopkins
Peer-Reviewed Publications
147
funded or co-funded by Cure donors
“I sat in that waiting room and watched the clock. Someone was in a lab somewhere, running the same experiment for the fourth time that week. I give so that clock moves faster for the next person.”
Marcus Trevino
Survivor. AML, remission since 2022.
Total Funding Deployed
$14.2M
since 2019 — 91¢ of every dollar to research
“Science moves because people keep funding the turns.”
Dr. Samuel Achebe
Clinical Oncologist, 18 years
Clinical Trials Initiated
8
3 currently enrolling patients
“He would have wanted to be useful. So I am useful in his place.”
Yuki Tanaka
Donor since 2021. Lost her father to ALS.
Slow work. Real results.
Science doesn't move in straight lines. Here is where the line is right now.
Active Research Programs
Across oncology, neurology, rare disease, and immunology
Publications Funded
In peer-reviewed journals from Nature Medicine to NEJM
Funds Reach Research
The rest covers operations — audited annually
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“The first morning you wake up and the pain is simply gone — that moment was built in a thousand moments no one witnessed. You can be part of building it.”
Dr. Rachel Nwosu
Founder, Cure Research Fund