Subject: Biden, Bloomberg announce $125M gift for new cancer institute at Hopkins - Baltimore Sun
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Joan Mayer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:03:40 -0400

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> Biden, Bloomberg announce $125M gift for new cancer institute at Hopkins
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> Vice President Joe Biden joined former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Tuesday to announce a $125 million gift to create an institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine focused solely on promising immunotherapy research to cure cancer.
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> Immunotherapy is a key component of the Obama administration's moonshot effort to cure cancer, which Biden is leading. Obama wants finding a cure for cancer to be as big as when the first man walked on the moon. Cancer specialists believe immunotherapy, a treatment which prompts the body's immune systems to target and kill cancer cells, has the most promising path.
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> "If we can harness this moment, I believe we can make quantum leaps in curing cancer," said Biden, who lost his oldest son to cancer last year and has made it a personal mission to push for a cure.
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> Bloomberg, a Hopkins alum who has given generously to his alma mater over the years, donated $50 million to the effort that will be called the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Jones Apparel Group founder and the namesake of Hopkins' Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, also contributed $50 million. The remaining $25 million for the center was donated by more than a dozen other supporters.
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> Beau Biden, the vice president's eldest son, died last May at age 46 from brain cancer. The vice president has made it a personal mission to push efforts to find a cure. He has toured top cancer centers around the country as part of the moonshot initiative.
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> Bloomberg praised Biden for his commitment to the issue.
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> "The vice president is determined to turn that tragedy to a positive for other families and we are here to stand with him," he said.
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> Bloomberg said their is more promise than ever to finding a cure.
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> "We still have a ways to go... and a cure won't come overnight," he said. "But we have turned a corner."
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