accelerator
The Magazine of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation | Summer 2017
Features
4
I MMUNOTHERAPY
Advancing the fight
against myeloma
6 MMRF COMMPASS STUDY SM
The latest news 10 MMRF PREVENTION PROJECT
Speeding toward early detection
Scientific Advances MMRF News MMRF Events
4 IMMUNOTHERAPY 11 CANCER FIGHTERS AND
CONFERENCE ROUNDUP 18 SIGNATURE EVENTS
6 MMRF COMMPASS STUDY SM –
THE LATEST NEWS
8 IN THE CLINIC –
NEW AND ONGOING STUDIES
10 MMRF PREVENTION PROJECT
12 MMRF RESOURCES 19 MMRF TEAM FOR CURES:
ENDURANCE EVENTS
14 LEADERSHIP NEWS 20 INDEPENDENT EVENTS
16 AMBASSADOR SPOTLIGHT 21 MMRF TEAM FOR CURES:
5K WALK/RUN
17 RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT
23 CALENDAR
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