Chase After a Cure donates $130,000 to MUSC for childhood cancer research
September 21, 2014
CHARLESTON, SC – Local nonprofit Chase After a Cure presented a donation of $130,000 to the Medical University of South Carolina for pediatric cancer research. Since its founding in 2009, Chase After a Cure has donated $705,000 to MUSC, which has the only laboratory in the state of South Carolina dedicated to translational pediatric cancer research. September is national Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to recognize the battle so many children face and to raise funds and awareness about the need for more research to fight this disease.
Pictured, from left, are Maraguerite Chalmers, Matt Pecoy, Margaret Marcoe, Debbie Rupert, Chase Ringler, Whitney Ringler, Adam White, Dr. Jacqueline Kraveka, Mehrdad Rahmaniyan, Dr. Michelle Hudspeth and Li Li.
Pictured, from left, are Chase Ringler, Whitney Ringler, Adam White, Dr. Jacqueline Kraveka and Mehrdad Rahmaniyan.
Chase Ringler, a survivor of childhood cancer neuroblastoma, visits the childhood cancer research lab at the Medical University of South Carolina. Pictured, back row, are Chase After a Cure founder Whitney Ringler, pediatric oncologist Dr. Jacqueline Kraveka, and Chase After a Cure Executive Director Adam White.
