History
In 2005, Susan L. Solomon co-founded The New York Stem Cell Foundation to accelerate stem cell research to cure major disease. Solomon, an attorney with a distinguished career in business, began her journey as a health-care advocate in 1992 when her son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. As a result of her son’s diagnosis and then her mother’s death from cancer in 2004, she sought to find a way in which the most advanced medical research could translate more quickly into cures. In conversations with scientists and clinicians, Solomon identified stem cells as the most promising way to address the unmet patient needs. In 2006, NYSCF established its own laboratory, which has now become one of the largest private stem cell laboratories in the United States, now referred to as The NYSCF Research Institute.
NYSCF channels private philanthropy toward the most promising stem cell research. NYSCF has raised nearly $100 million for stem cell research both in its own laboratory and in the major medical institutions around the world that it continues to support.
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