Sidney Kimmel Foundation For Cancer Research
Sidney Kimmel has been standing up to cancer for many years through his support of countless researchers and physicians fighting the battle against cancer. His contributions are unmatched, having reached $500 million. Treatment and research centers at Johns Hopkins University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and Thomas Jefferson University bear his name, as does a research center in San Diego. He took the lead in lobbying for increased government funding with the 1998 March to Conquer Cancer in Washington. And now, Sidney Kimmel is pleased to join the effort to Stand Up To Cancer.
The crown jewel of Mr. Kimmel’s contributions to cancer research is the Kimmel Scholars program, an annual award to 15 young researchers (160 thus far since the program’s 1997 inception) to fund their first post-training investigations. The Scholars, selected from an impressive applicant pool by an all-star panel of scientists, receive the awards at a point in their careers when they have yet to develop the résumés necessary to obtain government funding. Like a pebble in a stream, the impact of these grants is amplified as the Scholars become established and begin training and supporting a new generation of researchers.
Sidney Kimmel is Chairman and founder of Jones Apparel Group, a Fortune 500 company and leader in the women’s apparel and footwear industry. He also heads a movie production company, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, which has brought such recent films as United 93, The Kite Runner, and Alpha Dog to the screen.
