Dear Community Members, We are thrilled to announce Lachelle Semanko as our new Executive Director of Rein in Sarcoma! We are preparing for her to take our reins on Monday, April 17. Described as the heart of her organization, she worked at Make-A-Wish Minnesota for over the past twenty-three years. She has grown from the…
Due to increased interest in our Winter Gathering, we offered an additional live virtual session for those who were unable to attend our January in-person event. The session was lead by Ted Bowman and focused on resiliency, loss and honest hope. View session now: 2023 RIS Virtual Winter Gathering Living Well with Ambiguity: Losses, Hopes…
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Celebrate RIS’s Named Fund Honorees. You will also see their stories in April throughout Rein in Sarcoma’s social media and highlighted on the Named Fund page of our website. RIS Named Funds help sustain and support Rein in Sarcoma’s mission and help “Increase Awareness. Increase Survivors.” If you’d like to donate to the Rein in…
Rein in Sarcoma’s Board approved a $50,000 research grant to the University of Minnesota. The University solicited requests for funding proposals from their researchers, blindly ranking them according to national standards, and then recommended the proposal submitted by Erin Dickerson, PhD. Project Title: Targeting the Cell Cycle and Autophagy Reciprocal Communication Pathways in Sarcomas Principal…
Friday, March 31 at the University of Minnesota On Friday, March 31 Rein in Sarcoma hosted with Dr. Brenda Weigel of the Masonic Cancer Center our sixth annual Sarcoma Research Symposium featuring speakers who have received grants funded by the work of our community. After a light breakfast and warm welcome from Dr. Weigel, twenty-seven…
National Volunteer Appreciation Week is April 16-22. This is another opportunity to say THANK YOU! We appreciate your leadership, support and commitment. In 2022, we had volunteers provide over 3,000 hours of volunteer service, which equates to over $87,000. THANK YOU! Volunteers serve RIS in many roles: board members, day of event supporters, committee members,…
We invite you to enjoy a great day of golf and fellowship while raising awareness and funds for sarcoma cancer research. All levels of play are welcome on the outstanding Edinburgh Golf Course. Help us raise a record amount for sarcoma research! When: June 6, 2023; lunch and registrations begins at 11:30 and shotgun start at 1:00. …
Thank You for Your Leadership and Service With the end of our Q1 Board Meeting Michelle Kolling, Linda Andrean and Denis Clohisy, MD complete their tenure overseeing, shaping and guiding RIS policy, procedure, budget, management and support of our Strategic Plan. Their support has lead us through significant growth during exceptionally challenging times. Michelle Kolling…
We invite you to join us for the Minnesota Sarcoma Research Conference 2023: Progress and Promise, a hybrid event sponsored by Rein in Sarcoma (RIS) and the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota The Progress and Promise Sarcoma Research Conference is a forum for researchers to share their findings to RIS stakeholders and students and…
