This is beyond awesome and amazing. I have to believe that Stuart Scott would feel like his task was completed with this ground breaking announcement.
Per ESPN Media, The V Foundation for Cancer Research and family members representing Stuart Scott announced a new cancer research fund to honor the memory of Stuart Scott.
The Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund will help continue Stuart’s fight against cancer and assist some of the most underprivileged communities battling this horrible disease.
“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.”
Braun continued, “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.”
With an initial donation of $100,000 from ESPN, made in Stuart’s memory, The V Foundation has established a page on their website, www.jimmyv.org/stuartscott, for donations to be made for the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund.
“Stuart inspired others by how courageously he battled cancer,” said ESPN President John Skipper. “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.”