KMF's January in Review

Your gifts to KMF are changing lives!

Welcome to our January In Review Newsletter. The donations contributed to KMF in 2023 made a tangible difference in the lives of high-grade brain cancer patients and the doctors working to provide them with better treatment options. In January's newsletter, we’ll cover a summary of happenings from January, and break down the FOUR expense categories KMF funded for innovative research at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke in 2023.

Our Funding at Duke

The specificity of our mission at the Knox Martin Foundation—to fund innovative research—is very important. Despite being first identified in scientific literature in the 1920s, there are still only FOUR FDA-approved drugs to treat Glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is one of the most underfunded and under-researched cancers in the world.

Today, we are so proud to report that the grants KMF provided to the Duke Brain Tumor Center in 2023 covered expenses across four different categories to further innovative brain cancer research at Duke.

These tangible results are a true testament to the power of donations made to KMF. Whether our donors gave $10 or $10,000 last year, their funds were used to improve the lives of high-grade brain cancer patients desperately in need of hope, encouragement, and innovative treatment.?

Here are the FOUR expense categories our innovative research grants funded at the Duke Brain Tumor Center in 2023:

1. Expenses of patients enrolling in KMF funded Clinical Trials:

• 24 patients enrolled in the PESKE trial
• 5 patients enrolled in the FLIRT trial

KMF helped 29 brain cancer patients receive innovative treatment at Duke in 2023! The generosity of our donors helped these patients (and future ones) look beyond the challenges of a devastating GBM diagnosis to our vision of a world where a GBM diagnosis is treatable and curable.

2.?Salaries for:

• A regulatory coordinator
• A research nurse
• A clinical trial coordinator
• A laboratory research technician
• A laboratory postdoctoral scientist

Brain cancer research would be impossible to conduct without world-class medical and administrative staff. Our grants helped employ 5 highly qualified members of Dr. Khasraw's medical research team at Duke.?

3. Scientific abstract presentations:

• 7 abstracts presented at national and international scientific conferences

Innovative research and clinical trial development require extensive collaboration. Our grants to Duke allowed Dr. Khasraw's medical research team to work with doctors from around the world, ensuring the research they’re conducting is effective, safe, and evidence-based.

4. Material:

• Lab supplies (pipets, tubes, glassware, etc)
• A Centrifuge
• Tumor Tissue processing kits
• Chemical reagents
• Parking & lunch vouchers for patients

Our grants to Duke provided lab equipment, scientific material, and parking & lunch vouchers for patients involved with our clinical trials.

January highlights

EARLYBIRD gets the worm...

Last Sunday, we dropped 100 EARLYBIRD tickets for our 4th Annual Night For Knox fundraising event...and they sold out within two hours! WOW. If you weren't able to grab your ticket, be sure mark your calendar for Sunday, February 18th. We'll be releasing the rest of our general admission tickets at 12pm EST.?

Our community partners are the best!

Peach State Bank & Trust was proud to present us with a $10,000 check at the end of January, continuing our community partnership into 2024! The check was majorly comprised of donations made directly by PSB employees to for “Dress Down Friday's” in the new year. We’re honored and so excited to be the recipient of this fun campaign for a second time. The generosity of the employees at PSB is truly inspiring!

CANDID approved:

We’re excited to share that we’ve earned our 2024 Platinum Seal of Transparency—the highest available—with Candid.org! You can continue to support our work in 2024 with trust and confidence.

Coming up...

GET READY, NASHVILLE

We're coming to town!

Chris Burrus is fighting to raise money for KMF at Rumble on the Row on Saturday, February 24th. We're SO excited to be a part of this fun event! Learn more about the big night here.?

PLUS: Katie Gay, PA-C and a few of our Nashville community members are?hosting a percentage night benefiting KMF on Friday, February 23rd. Do you live in Nashville? Come one, come all! Sign up here to receive more information.

NIGHT FOR KNOX 2024

It’s that time of year again…NIGHT FOR KNOX 2024 is coming up at the end of April!

• Regular GA tickets launch on February 18th. Join us for a night to remember! This year we'll host dinner, a live auction, an open bar, and a two hour set by Yacht Rock Schooner at the Atlanta Athletic Club.
• Sponsorships now available. Are you interested in sponsoring our fourth annual fundraising gala? Do you know a small business, corporation, or individual that might want to get involved? Check out our website for more on NFK24 Sponsorships!
• Premier Ticket Packages now available. If you're unable to sponsor this year, we've also launched a brand new ticket type for an elevated NFK24 experience (and merchandise!)—learn more about our Premier Ticket Packages.