V Foundation announces Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund

The V Foundation has announced they are creating a research fund in honor of late ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott and $100,000 in donations have already been made.

In memory of the late Stuart Scott, the folks at The V Foundation are setting up a fund dedicated to ground-breaking cancer research among minorities. The new fund will be named the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund.

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To get the ball rolling, ESPN has donated $100,000 to the research fund.

Anyone else who is interested in donating can make their contributions to www.jimmyv.org/stuartscott.

“Stuart inspired others by how courageously he battled cancer,” said ESPN President John Skipper in a statement. “He and I talked about this horrible disease and opportunities he saw to expand the scope of research being done. He was taken from us way too young, and given what he stood for and what he clearly meant to so many, this fund is a fitting way to honor his legacy and significantly add to what he did so valiantly – fight cancer.”

With African-Americans and Hispanics seeing a higher cancer rate, the hope of the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund is to identify why certain forms of cancer can be more deadly to different ethnicities.

“Cancer is more than 100 individual diseases,” said Susan Braun, CEO of The V Foundation.

“As research accelerates our knowledge, we recognize how varied each individual cancer is, and how the same type of cancer can vary among different people. Many cancers pose more of a problem in different ethnic groups, and cancer overall affects diverse populations in complex ways. Translational research will target these issues. We also know that innovation happens with diversity of thought. Funding V Scholars, the brightest minds in cancer research, through supporting people who are part of disproportionately affected communities, can make research stronger.

“The Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund will help fund and identify cancer research and individual researchers that bring the exciting advances in the current research environment to these difficult, real-time cancer tragedies.”

It is great to see the memory of Stuart Scott living on with such a great cause.

He inspired countless amounts of people during his life and career and now he can continue to have an impact through the research fund in his name.

The V Foundation has announced they are creating a research fund in honor of late ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott and $100,000 in donations have already been made.

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