The staff at Turning Point’s Marlton restaurant did their part in supporting The Kortney Rose Foundation (KRF) during the company’s annual Great Food for a Great Cause event on Feb. 23 and 24.
Turning Point Restaurants raised more than $82,000 this year, and during the last 10 years, this annual event has raised more than $410,000.
Money raised from the event directly benefits research being done through the 16 collaborative institutions making up the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium.
The KRF works collaboratively through the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium, supports neuro-oncology program growth at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is a primary funder of the Open DIPG Program.
KRF officials say the Open DIPG program is the largest project ever done on Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, which officials cite as the deadliest form of pediatric brain cancer.
During the next two years, The Kortney Rose Foundation will also be funding a project that is taking the science involved in the first immunotherapy cure for one type of pediatric Leukemia and studying it in brain tumors.
To learn more about the foundation, visit www.thekortneyrosefoundation.org for more information.
