2012 Susan G. Komen Research Grants Announced!

We are excited to announce our 2012 research program that takes aim at early and late stage breast disease while seeking answers in early detection, cancer prevention, and socioeconomic issues that often make breast cancer outcomes worse in minority and medically under-served women!

In 2012, we are funding $58 million in new research, augmenting the $685 million that we have invested in breast cancer research since 1982. This makes us the largest non-profit funder of breast cancer research outside of the U.S. government. Our 2012 research program includes 154 grants to researchers in 22 states and 7 countries. We currently fund more than 500 active research grants around the world.

The 2012 grants cover the full “continuum of cancer care” including research into prevention, environmental issues, more sensitive screening, personalized treatments and factors that lead to worse breast cancer outcomes in minorities and special populations.

A special focus this year is on making sure that all women get the right treatments from the outset. This might mean no treatment, or very limited interventions, for lesions that might never develop into cancer.  At the other end of the spectrum, we want new therapies that promise a full, high-quality life for women with advanced and metastatic disease.

A complete list of our new peer-reviewed grants is available on our website here. The portfolio includes $8 million in new Komen Promise Grants, to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University, who will be investigating why some women are more likely to have a late recurrence of their breast cancers, and to seek new methods to treat women whose cancers recur.

Our research program is funded by national fund-raising programs, partners, and by Susan G. Komen Affiliates who provide 25% of their locally raised funds to global research.

We’re grateful for our partners and donors who make this research possible, and who understand and support all of our programs.

You can learn more about the 2012 research grants program in the full press release located here.