Kids v Cancer awarded Drucker Prize for Nonprofit Innovation

KIDS V CANCER was awarded the 2015 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation for its role in the 2012 Creating Hope Act. Kids v Cancer was chosen out of 655 applicants from nonprofits.

The award is presented by the Drucker Institute and includes a $100,000 prize, made possible by the Coca-Cola Foundation.

“It is a great honor to be the 2015 recipient of the Peter Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. We will use this recognition and award to continue our efforts to change the landscape of pediatric cancer drug development, including the passing The Advanced Hope Act and Kids Innovative (KIDS) Initiative,” said Nancy Goodman, executive director of Kids v Cancer.

Since its passage in 2012, four companies have earned Creating Hope Act Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review vouchers. Most recently, United Therapeutics Corporation announced the sale of its Creating Hope Act priority review voucher to AbbVie for $350 million. United Therapeutics earned the voucher for its development of Unituxin for neuroblastoma.

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The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient lives
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Grilled by Congress, Kennedy defends NIH and NCI budget cuts, freezes, and RIFs
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