Subject: RE: Excellent News
From: "Jill O'Donnell-Tormey" <[email-masked]>
To: "Skip Lockwood" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Jonathan Schwartz" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Mitch Laurance" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Robin Sparrow" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Sherry Galloway" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Tom Quinn" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Michael Milken" <[email-masked]>, "Sanford Siegel" <[email-masked]>, "Dr. Thomas Moody" <[email-masked]>, "Concepcion, Raoul S." <[email-masked]>, "Mike Smith" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Anne Marie Person" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Michael Milken" <[email-masked]>, "Nancy Cromwell" <[email-masked]>, "Sherry Wilson" <[email-masked]>, "Jamie Bearse" <[email-masked]>, "Kathy Costigan" <[email-masked]>, "Betsy London" <[email-masked]>, "Kevin Johnson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:02:22 -0400

CONGRATULATIONS!!  What wonderful news.  I know how hard it is to secure a $1million gift.  Kudos to all.

Jill

Jill O'Donnell-Tormey, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Cancer Research Institute
One Exchange Plaza
55 Broadway, Suite1802
New York, NY 10006
212-688-7515
www.cancerresearch.org

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From: Skip Lockwood [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 3:59 PM
To: Mr. Jonathan Schwartz; Mr. Mitch Laurance; Mr. Robin Sparrow; Mr. Hunter Biden; Mr. Hunter Biden; Sherry Galloway; Jill O'Donnell-Tormey; Mr. Tom Quinn; Mr. Michael Milken; Sanford Siegel; Dr. Thomas Moody; Concepcion, Raoul S.; Mike Smith
Cc: Anne Marie Person; Mr. Michael Milken; Nancy Cromwell; Sherry Wilson; Jamie Bearse; Kathy Costigan; Betsy London; Kevin Johnson
Subject: Excellent News

All,

I have the honor of informing you that ZERO has received a $1 million grant for the Drive Against Prostate Cancer program.  The money has come from an anonymous donor and will be wire transferred to our bank account early next week.  The money is to be used to support the testing program as well as to purchase/refurbish another vehicle to replace the aging vehicle number 1.

We are thrilled to have been selected and are eager to put this grant to excellent use.   Special thanks to Jamie Bearse for handling the negotiations and to Betsy, Tracy and Amanda for operating an excellent program that is very deserving of this money.  We will update you shortly with more details concerning how we will move forward.

In other excellent news Robin Sparrow has sold out his golf tournament and Sherry Galloway has secured the local television station and its celebrity weatherman/prostate cancer survivor as a sponsor of the Jeremy Paster Memorial Great Prostate Cancer Challenge.  Also, the Know Your Score golf tournament is coming along nicely.  This year we will be at a new course (Pawley's Plantation Golf and Country Club in Pawley's Island, SC) with a new set of sponsors and we hope to have news of a new celebrity spokesperson shortly.

Finally, we continue to work to protect the CDMRP as Congress tries to figure out how to get a budget for 2011 passed.  We are working diligently with a coalition of other CDMRP program stakeholders as well as with the prostate cancer community to ensure the survival of this program.  Kevin has been in negotiations with the AUA and the Congressional sponsors of the Prostate Act.  He has successfully pushed them to make significant changes to the bill which we hope will improve its chances of passage as well as correcting some serious defects in the structure (i.e. the Veterans Administration does NOT need to be the coordinating entity of prostate cancer research).  We. will keep you apprised of any new information.

Finally, this short article from Politico, shared by Mike Smith should give you a flavor of the atmosphere here in DC:

THE $93,000 QUESTION - If anything is too expensive for Medicare, it just might be a prostate cancer therapy that costs $93,000 and gives men, on average, an extra four months to live. The decision is due March 30, when CMS must decide whether Medicare will pay for Provenge, a cancer therapy. If CMS decides not to cover it, the agency could open itself up to the "government rationing" charges again (because Don Berwick was really missing those). And if the agency decides to cover it, the Obama administration will lose a lot of its talking points about controlling health care spending. The POLITICO Pro Story. http://politico.pro/euyY9f

It is amazing how cavalier people can be with other people's lives.

Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions.

--Skip
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Skip Lockwood
President and CEO
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