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What are we doing?

Wendy’s fund is dedicated to giving patients access to the highly customized, cutting-edge care Wendy received, and to add one more incredible chapter to Wendy’s life.

That care gave Wendy hope. It gave her 10 years she would not have had otherwise. It gave her the strength to live her life to the fullest. It gave her hope.

Not every patient has access to the resources necessary to get that level of care, and nothing would make Wendy more proud than to give that gift of hope, of time, of joy to others.

Through these donations, Wendy's endowment will allow neuro-oncologists to:

Dedicate more time to each patient

Directly enable an individual Neuro-oncologist to see fewer patients but spend more time on each, designing and delivering the time-intensive, custom and cutting-edge care Wendy received. Without that, Wendy would not have seen her 40th birthday. More patients need that kind of time-intensive, cutting-edge care. This endowment supports that time-intensive, customized care.

Focus on promising clinical research

Wendy exhausted "standard of care" therapy in 2012. Every treatment since was an experimental investment in hope and downpayment on a cure. The unique mission of the physician-scientist was critical to Wendy's 10-year fight: finding new treatments for the future while fighting for the patient today. This funding gives time and resources to deliver that hope from bench to bedside.