Cindy Scott-Lunau

CureSearch for Children's Cancer dedicates private funds for childhood cancer research for the Children's Oncology Group. Its Children's Oncology Group has a network of more than 5,000 physicians, nurses, and scientists whose collaboration, research, and care have turned childhood cancer from a virtually incurable disease to one with an overall 78% cure rate. The company was founded by Dr. G. Denman Hammond and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

The Scripps Research Institute is a private, non-profit research organizations that performs basic biomedical research in molecular & cellular biology, chemistry, immunology and neuroscience. They receive the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. The organization also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The organization was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.