How does an unexpected cancer diagnosis could impact on your emerging career? The careers were switched by Kathy Giusti and started a new venture that transformed the research techniques of cancer and in recent encounters the challenge of ensuring the sustainability of the organization and its funding for its newest venture. In 1996, she was the first diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (MM) and did her best to improve the treatment of the disease. Kathy Giusti, co-founder of Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), helped form the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC), and integrated the different body of academics, physicians, researchers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and patients to focus their efforts around the disease. The MMRF gathered a significant fund for these objectives, and had supported clinical trials for drugs and sponsored research.
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