The Suzanne Wright Foundation

The Suzanne Wright Foundation CodePurple is a Suzanne Wright Foundation initiative, dedicated to driving urgency and action in the fight against pancreatic cancer. It must become a priority.

With a 91 percent mortality rate, this disease is an emergency that requires leadership and resources. Join our fight as we work toward a solution.

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CodePurple is a Suzanne Wright Foundation initiative, dedicated to driving urgency and action in the fight against pancreatic cancer.

Despite medical innovation over the last century, millions of Americans with deadly and debilitating conditions have seen no progress. Basic research alone, while essential, is not going to cure the thousands of diseases that impair or take millions of lives every year.

Take the sobering fact that nine out of ten pancreatic cancer patients die from the disease- a mortality rate that has not improved in more than forty years. Pancreatic cancer is just one example of the limitations of the federal research system to address deadly diseases with urgency. The current path from basic science to applied research to commercial viability is too slow. Research is not getting to patients.

The Suzanne Wright Foundation advocates for the launch of HARPA, a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency, to execute transformational medical research projects. Modeled after DARPA, within the Department of Defense, HARPA would leverage federal research assets and private sector technologies to build life-saving capabilities for diseases that have not benefited from the current system.