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University Place Conference Center @ IUPUI Campus – Indianapolis, IN
The Central Indiana Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is pleased to partner with the IU Simon Cancer Center and Catherine Peachey Fund on the annual Amelia Project Retreat. This meeting is designed to bring scientists and clinicians together who are working on basic research in breast cancer at institutions across Indiana, to foster collaboration across institutional boundaries and enhance research through collegial sharing and to encourage and educate pre- and post-doctoral candidates.
For updates and to register to attend the project visit http://www.cancer.iu.edu/ameliaproject/.
If you are a medical professional, breast cancer researcher or clinician interested in participating, please contact info@komenindy.org.
The Amelia Project is not open to the general public.
NOTE ABOUT 2012 AMELIA PROJECT
For each of the past thirteen years researchers, clinicians and consumers from across Indiana have gathered at the IU Medical School campus for a one-day retreat.
This tradition is not going away, but it is going on a one year sabbatical. The meeting usually takes place on the first Saturday in February. This year breast cancer research is going to be part of the activities surrounding the 2012 Super Bowl. If you have been with us through the years, you know that the concept for the Komen Tissue Bank was born at the Amelia Project. The host committee for the Super Bowl has created Indy’s Super Cure to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center.
There will be numerous activities to raise awareness of the tissue bank with the public and with the research community around the world. There will be fundraising events for the tissue bank and outreach into minority populations to insure that all women are represented within the Komen tissue bank. In other words—everyone who can be recruited into some aspect of this once in a lifetime opportunity is going to be very, very busy. Unfortunately this includes those of us who organize the Amelia Project.
Plans are already being made for the return of the Amelia Project in 2013. Watch your emails or visit our web site www.cancer.iu.edu/ameliaproject for information when the agenda and date are posted. This gives everyone a year to perform great science, and to be ready to present posters and podium presentations that will make 2013 a wonderful new beginning.
Please visit www.KomenTissueBank.iu.edu and www.IndianapolisSuperBowl.com to keep up with all of the excitement and to look for opportunities to participate and further the work of the tissue bank and breast cancer research through Indy’s Super Cure project. We look forward to seeing you again after our brief hiatus.
Sincerely yours,
George W. Sledge, MD
For the Amelia Project’s Organizing Committee