New York Giants legend and Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer, Lawrence Taylor, is partnering with Music Beats Cancer and can kick off the launch of the primary annual Celebrating Survivors: A Concert Fundraiser on June 8.
The fundraiser can be held at Terminal 5 in New York Metropolis and can characteristic Taylor and Led Zeppelin cowl band Get The Led Out.
“We salute those that are doing what they’ll to reside with and past their cancers. Extra work must be performed to enhance affected person outcomes. Biomedical innovators are key if we want to see change within the warfare on most cancers, they usually want our assist now greater than ever,” stated Music Beats Most cancers founder Dr. Mona S. Jhaveri.
The purpose of Music Beats Most cancers is to “extreme funding hole stays for innovators who’re growing promising applied sciences for combating most cancers.”
Music Beats Most cancers’s mission assertion is to spice up cancer-fighting applied sciences within the product-development business, resulting in extra options. The nonprofit group leads these concerned to assist the development of latest options and promising therapies for most cancers, all whereas connecting it to the love for music.
By partnering with impartial music artists in 15 completely different genres, every expertise helps elevate consciousness and funds for most cancers analysis, with among the greater names hitting $7,000-$6,000 price of assist. Elevating over $350,000 since its begin, they’re helping in bridging the funding hole seen in most cancers analysis referred to as the “Valley of Demise.”
The purple carpet ceremony will run from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET and that’s when followers could have the chance to fulfill and take photographs with Taylor. The live performance will then run from 7:30 p.m. till 10:30 p.m. ET.
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