There are many ways you can get involved and help the Randy Shaver Cancer Research and Community Fund. Whether you make a donation towards research and Minnesota’s cancer community, become a volunteer or sponsor an event you can help make a difference in the search for a cure.
Since 2007 The Randy Shaver Cancer Research and Community Fund has funded researcher John Ohlfest Ph.d for his impressive work with untreatable brain cancers. Funding from the RSCRCF played a key role in helping Dr. Ohlfest secure additional funding from the NIH as his vaccine was killing tumors with little or no evidence of toxicity. His hope was that in the near future his brain tumor vaccine could be made available for a clinical trial with human patients. His hope came true a year ago when a number of patients received the vaccine with convincing results.
Unfortunately in the summer of 2012 Dr. Ohlfest was diagnosed with metastic melanoma. The cancer that he was so aggressively trying to cure had become personal. On January 21, 2013 John Ohlfest died of melanoma at the age of 35. We are honored to have known John and share in his mission to find a cure for brain cancer.