Situation Analysis
There are more than 9,000 known diseases. But today, we've discovered approved treatments for only 500 of them. And millions of patients are waiting desperately for a lifeline.
No one knows this better than The Suzanne Wright Foundation. As advocates for patients with pancreatic cancer, they face the chilling reality of medicine frozen in time and space: Nine out of ten pancreatic cancer patients die from the disease - a mortality rate that has not changed in more than 40 years.
The problem isn't the science. The National Institutes of Health funds billions in basic research. The problem...