Preventing Breast Cancer the Focus of 2009-2010 Susan G. Komen for the Cure Promise Grants

The research will be funded through Komen’s unique Promise Grants: multi-year, multi-million dollar projects geared to answer the toughest questions in breast cancer science today.

Introduced in 2008, Promise Grants require collaboration across a wide range of disciplines – scientists, medical professionals, caregivers, public health specialists and advocates – who normally may not work together. These teams conduct research with the highest potential to deliver treatments for breast cancer more quickly and for this new Promise Grant to find ways to prevent breast cancer.