HUGE Greatest Baker Win!
B+ Hero Arya
“Our family just wanted to express our gratitude to B+. This last year has been the most difficult of our lives and we are still trying to navigate through our daughter’s diagnosis. On going treatment, side effects from treatment, job changes and loss of income has really made things challenging. We truly appreciate your help. Thank you!”
America’s Greatest Baker Contest
Colossal is a phenomenal organization that runs online competitions to help charities. We have been the beneficiary of past contests like Miss Jetset, Face of Horror, Mr. & Ms. Health & Fitness, and America’s Greatest Baker. Carly Bergstein (left) and I joined our Greatest Baker winner, Sara Husein, as we met “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro at his manufacturing facility in Jersey City, NJ. Buddy is the Celebrity Spokesperson for this contest and could not have been nicer. Buddy also provides us with cakes for “UDance” at the University of Delaware. And the best part of it all is that The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation received $2,269,583 from this contest!!! That is going to go a long way in assisting thousands of families and funding cutting-edge childhood cancer research.
ACCELERATE Meeting
As you may recall, The B+ Foundation is the underwriter of an amazing, global collaboration called ACCELERATE. ACCELERATE brings together ALL of the key stakeholders to accelerate drug development. We have advocates (B+), Industry (pharma), Academic researchers, and Regulators (I.e. FDA). Last week at SickKids Hospital in Toronto, 175 people from 24 countries participated in exciting discussions about Diffuse Midline Gliomas (DMGs). DMGs are very difficult to treat and their prognosis are very poor. It’s a long road, but I think we made good progress.
A belated Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there.
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Ali & Andrew’s Dad