A Letter From Julia's Parents
 
Dear Bear Necessities,
 
My wife and I would like to thank Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation for the generous contributions to our family in our time of need. The gas card really helped getting us to and from the hospital and the grocery card really helped with necessities.

While recovering from surgery for Ewing's Sarcoma, Julia's spirits were lifted when a very large box from Bear Necessities arrived. The Walden Acoustic guitar, instructional books and guitar accessories were everything she dreamed of for her Small Miracle and truly lifted her spirits.
 
We are very proud of her as her life inexplicably changed the days after her 16th Birthday with her diagnosis of Ewing's Sarcoma. She is a great competitor and with the much appreciated boost during treatments and surgery from Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, she will beat this disease.
 
~Jeff and Leslie

 
A special thanks to Julie Przeslicke, Music Therapist at Hope Advocate Children's Hospital and Paul at Tobias Music.

 

Thanks to all who attended the symposium last month and to Rush University Medical Center for hosting the event.  Nine graduate students from across the country were nominated by distinguished colleagues in the field of Cancer Biology and Epigenomics to present their research at the 4th Annual "Cracking the Code with the Bear". 

Congratulations to Conrad Russell Cruz of Baylor College of Medicine and Madeline Lancaster from University of California, San Diego who were each awarded a $20,000 grant from Bear Necessities to further his/her research at the post-doctoral level.  See symposium agenda HERE. 

 

If interested in applying for a grant from Bear Necessities, our new guidelines will be posted on the website by February 1, 2010.