Winn Awards shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Dr. Rob Winn and Catharine Grimes, MBA, are coming to you from Albuquerque, where three cohorts of Winn Career Development Award scholars are gathered this week for the Winn Awards Annual Convening.
Five years ago, the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation (BMSF) made a bold and visionary investment when it launched the Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program – taking on one of medicine’s most urgent challenges: ensuring that more patients, from every community, have access to clinical trials and the breakthrough treatments they make possible.
At the heart of this effort is the Winn Career Development Award (CDA), a rigorous two-year program training physician-researchers to design and implement community-oriented clinical trials.
Winn CDA scholars are committed to engaging communities that have not historically been included in research, ensuring that therapies are safe and effective for all – and that patients in these populations can access cutting-edge medicine when they need it most.
This week’s convening marks a powerful moment for our Winn CDA scholars and the entire Winn Awards community.
Dr. Rob Winn, Director of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Catharine Grimes, President of BMSF, share our mission of Better Science For All and extend deep gratitude to the partners who make this work possible: our funding partners Gilead Sciences, Amgen, and Genentech, and our implementation partners the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Together, this growing national network of Winn CDA scholars – supported by academic institutions, industry partners, and professional organizations working side by side – is helping to build a more hopeful future for clinical research.”
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