MMRF Accelerator Magazine Summer 2015 Edition | Page 16

We are curing cancer now We have industry-leading momentum, but there is still more work to be done. We need your support. The MMRF and its partners have fueled MMRF Learning Network provides Funding is needed more than ever more studies, completed more trials, researchers with fertile ground to form in this transformative time. introduced more medicines, and had a promising hypotheses for testing. There is more promise than ever far greater effect on patients than any other organization. We have brought seven drugs to market since 2003 and tripled the expected life span. Today we are advancing breakthrough treatments within each of the most promising new drug categories. The pipeline of new treatments has the potential to dramatically increase patient life span and has never been more robust. The MMRF Campaign will enable us to triple Our clinical research group brings potential treatments to patients The Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC) is our clinical research arm. This network of best- before. In the next three years, we will accomplish as much to help patients as we have in the past decade. Multiple myeloma patients don’t have time to waste, so please contribute now. in-class partners is instrumental in We have 11 new potentially launching clinical trials and getting life-extending treatments that patients treatments to patients faster. We are waiting for, but we cannot open open trials 60% faster than the the trials without your support. industry average. our speed. We have the model. We need your help in funding it. Our Data Bank holds answers Precious information that we are learning to decode is contained in Please give today at themmrf.org/donate We are curing cancer the MMRF Data Bank, an ambitious gathering and analysis of genetic and clinical patient data. Our Learning Network inspires new approaches Collaboration rather than competition speeds discovery. By sharing our data and the resulting discoveries, the 16 We have the power to leverage all of our progress, partnerships, and models into new treatments and cures for patients. T HE MMRF.ORG