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Rock Stars of Science Rock Stars of Science™ is an ongoing philanthropic campaign brought to you by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation.

ROCK STARS OF SCIENCE celebrating the Founding Father Joe Perry and world renowned scientists at MSKCC putting a spotlight on Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center @ MSK initial stage revolutionary research on all cancers. A star-powered line-up joined the campaign to honor the doctors and researchers who are saving our lives, to make science rock as a career choice for the next generation, and to raise their platinum voices in demand for future research funding.

11/16/2021

Watch Valerie Steele present Dapper Dan with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 CFDA Fashion Awards in the 2021 CFDA Fashion Awards at THE POOL + THE GRILL in New York City.

11/16/2021

Legendary Dapper Dan arrives at the 2021 CFDA Awards at the POOL + GRILL Room in New York to receive his Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement award.

11/16/2021

Learn how MSK researchers are deploying mRNA vaccines against pancreatic cancer.

11/16/2021

Did you know lung cancer is more deadly than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined? Yet it gets less than half the funding. Why is that? In this episode, Dr. Diane Reidy-Lagunes sits down with thoracic surgeon and attending physician at MSK, Dr. Bernard Park, and chair of the Lung Cancer Resea...

11/10/2021

The first time a designer has received the award without ever hosting a fashion show.

11/10/2021

Before Aurora James and Dapper Dan are honored by the CFDA Awards, they met for the first time over Zoom and reflected on fashion’s past, present, and what changes need to be made for the future.

"Among the winners, the largest $50,000 Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar award went to Padina Bondar-Gibbs of Parso...
09/08/2021

"Among the winners, the largest $50,000 Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar award went to Padina Bondar-Gibbs of Parsons School of Design."

More than 320 applicants from 22 American fashion schools and graduate programs applied for this year’s scholarships.

25th Anniversary of Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Scholarship Program. Commemorating its commitment to ...
09/08/2021

25th Anniversary of Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Scholarship Program. Commemorating its commitment to education, $250,000 will be awarded through the 2021 CFDA Design Scholar Awards, Suntchi Image Maker Award, Liz Claiborne Design for Impactful Futures Award, and the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Designer Masters Scholar Award.

Celebrating 25 Years of Growing Exemplary Talent In 2021, the Council of Fashion Designers of America will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the CFDA Scholarship Program. Commemorating its commitment to education, $250,000 will be awarded through the 2021 CFDA Design Scholar Awards, Suntchi Image Ma...

07/27/2021
05/26/2021

MSK researchers like physician-scientist Karuna Ganesh are using an innovative technology called organoids to unlock the mysteries of cancer metastasis.

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Rock Stars of Science™ is an ongoing philanthropic campaign brought to you by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation. A star-powered line-up joined the campaign to honor the doctors and researchers who are saving our lives, to make science rock as a career choice for the next generation, and to raise their platinum voices in demand for future research funding.

The Geoffrey Beene Foundation was founded in 2006 by G. Thompson (“Tom”) Hutton, Esq. (under his discretionary authority as Executor of the Estate of Geoffrey Beene who died in 2004). The mission of the Foundation is to support critical philanthropic causes, the most important being the establishment in 2006 of the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Tom Hutton initiated and orchestrated the creation of the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center with Harold Varmus, M.D. (Nobel Laureate and former CEO of MSK), because he wanted to fund new revolutionary research initiatives that would lead to new treatments for cancer patients. Since its creation in 2006, the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center has served as the nucleus for revolutionary new research approaches in preventing, diagnosing and treating cancer. Together the Geoffrey Beene Foundation and Geoffrey Beene, LLC (until 2018 when its business was sold) have been the sole funding sources and have funded approximately 115 separate new revolutionary research initiatives across all cancers to develop new treatments and diagnostics for cancer patients. The new research has resulted in major breakthroughs in multiple cancers, saving thousands of lives.

The Geoffrey Beene Foundation has also supported causes relating to educational scholarships, veterans, protection of women, children and their families, animal welfare, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, scientific awards for builders of science institutions and initiatives relating to the fashion industry, such as the creation of the Counsel of Fashion Designers of America annual Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.