The prize, one of the largest privately funded awards for scientific investigation, will be given to the world’s top researchers, regardless of institutional affiliation
Steve Jobs, Sally Ride, Aretha Franklin, Luciano Pavarotti, and Dizzy Gillespie. All these individuals were considered geniuses in their fields, and all were gone too soon due to pancreatic cancer. As it stands, pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancer types, and my daughter Tessa Stephenson Brand and I intend to contribute to a solution.
