EIF’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund is one of three major initiatives within EIF’s Women’s Cancer Programs. Founded by a group of committed Hollywood leaders - chairs Kate Capshaw & Steven Spielberg and Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks, along with founders Kelly Chapman Meyer, Anne Douglas, Quinn Ezralow, Marion Laurie and Jamie Tisch - EIF's Women's Cancer Research Fund was established to support innovative research, education, and outreach directed at the development of more effective approaches to the early diagnosis, and prevention of all women's cancers.

Through this initiative, EIF assembled a "dream team" of nationally and internationally recognized scientists and clinicians, including four Nobel laureates, collaborating in a groundbreaking research project focused on a single objective: to discover biomarkers that can detect cancer at an early stage when survival rates are highest. The ultimate goal of EIF's Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project is to develop a blood test for early discovery of breast cancer, and ultimately change the way physicians are able to forecast many types of cancers before they become life-threatening.

Honorary chairs Kate Capshaw and Rita Wilson along with The Women's Cancer Research Fund's founders Marion Laurie, Anne Douglas, Kelly Meyer, Quinn Ezralow, and Jamie Tisch.

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