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BallenIsles Event Raises More than $100,000 for Scripps Florida Prostate Cancer Research

Cancer research on The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Florida campus recently received a boost from the BallenIsles Men’s Golf Association’s annual prostate cancer awareness and fundraising campaign. The event, which included a silent auction and golf tournament held on the championship-level courses at the BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, raised a record $104,830.

“This was a significant increase over the fundraising milestone we reached last year and we’re pleased that one hundred percent of the money raised by this tournament and silent auction goes directly to a postdoctoral training fellowship at Scripps Florida, aimed at developing better treatments and, ultimately, a cure for this disease that strikes one out of every six American men,” said BallenIsles MGA/Prostate Cancer Committee Chair Burt Rein.

The prostate cancer research project will be led by Associate Professor Kendall Nettles of TSRI’s Department of Cancer Biology. His team will study novel compounds, identified in collaboration with John Katzenellenbogen of the University of Illinois, that effectively inhibit steroid receptors. “Studies indicate that these agents are effective against many human malignancies, including prostate cancer," said Nettles.

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Jerry Pollack (left) and Burt Rein were among those organizing the BallenIsles fundraising effort to benefit prostate cancer research at Scripps Florida.

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BallenIsles Event Raises More than $100,000 for Scripps Florida Prostate Cancer Research