$55M gift creates new ‘Cancer Interception’ Institute at Penn’s Basser Center for BRCA to stop hereditary cancers at the earliest stages

Holly Auer for Penn Today: “‘Over the past 10 years, Basser has become the global epicenter for BRCA research, education, and testing,’ said Susan Domchek, executive director of the Basser Center for BRCA and the Basser Professor in Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine at Penn. ‘We now sit at an inflection point where we have the ability to revolutionize the timeline of cancer care. Mindy and Jon’s gift to create this Institute holds tremendous promise for families who are living with BRCA mutations—and for the broader field of hereditary cancers—where we are so eager to empower patients with options to erase the cancers that have followed their families for generations.'”