WPFT Meet At The The Cancer Research Institute

Posted February 4, 2010, 2:33 pm in Leadership

Women Playing For T.I.M.E.(WPFT) kicked off its annual Steering Committee meeting on February 1st with a very special tour of Orlando's Cancer Research Institute (CRI) at Lake Nona. There were over 50 volunteers and members who attended the meeting, all of whom were very excited to hear from various members of the CRI staff about the important work underway to help prevent and treat cancer.

A special highlight of the meeting was when members from Panera Bread arrived to present WPFT Founder Elaine Lustig with a check in the amount of $30,000 as a donation to WPFT and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando. Following the Steering Committee meeting, WPFT members and volunteers were treated to personalized tours of the CRI facilities, including the laboratories where important research is underway to develop diagnostic tests and vaccines for specific cancers.

Dr. Clarence Brown, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando and members from the CRI staff offered their personal thanks and gratitude to WPFT members and volunteers and in particular, WPFT Founder -Elaine Lustig, for supporting the CRI and its important work to develop new therapies to treat cancer.

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Posted 5:03pm February 25th, 2010
One of the fantastic highlights of that meeting was listening to each member share both the how and why of their involvement with TIME....so many stories shared with laughter and with tears...beautiful women who make me smile...make me proud to be around them all! SusieA