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Zitat von Klugschnacker

Wollt Ihr weiter über die Verwendung der Livestrong-Foundation-Gelder diskutieren? Dann verschiebe ich das in einen eigenen Thread, hier ist es mehr oder weniger offtopic.

Nur zu, solange Kai Walter's Kommentar drin ist, denn er/WTC sind der Knackpunkt hier.

Wobei die Frage ob Livestrong Gelder fuer Forschung ausgibt, von ihnen selbst abschlaegig beantwortet wurde:

In the early years, Ulman says, the foundation awarded grants for research on both testicular cancer and cancer survivors. The grants were small, in the low six figures or less, and were aimed at scientists pursuing cutting-edge ideas.

“For a young researcher it was great,” says Julien Sage, a Stanford professor who received a total of $150,000 from 2004 to 2005. “I had no data, just an idea.” Small, speculative grants like his, he explains, are essential to young scientists who are developing the data they need to apply for more substantial government funding.

The main reason for the shift, Ulman says, was scale. The American Cancer Society raised $900 million last year. And the National Cancer Institute awards nearly $2 billion a year in research grants. Ulman says Livestrong was too small to make a difference in such a big pond. “We started to realize that there’s literally billions of dollars in cancer research, and we asked, Is that the best use of the money we’re raising?”

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