2009 Strolling Supper with Blues and News

More than 500 guests, attended this year’s "Joan’s Legacy: Uniting Against Lung Cancer Strolling Supper with Blues & News", which raised more than $900,000 for lung cancer research.

At the event, the Foundation announced the awardees of 11 new $100,000 research grants in 2009. The night commemorated Lung Cancer Awareness Month in New York City with a strolling supper, a live performance by Grammy-winning singer Delbert McClinton and a silent auction.

Marc Ladanyi, M.D., chief of molecular diagnostics and director of the diagnostic molecular pathology laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, accepted this year’s Caine Halter Hope Now Award, which recognizes progress in the field of lung cancer research.

The evening’s other award, the Joanie Award for exceptional journalism about lung cancer, was given to science writer Mark Roth of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. Mr. Roth said he was inspired to write a series on lung cancer in part by colleagues who had succumbed to the disease.

Since Uniting Against Lung Cancer was founded in 2001 as "Joan’s Legacy", the organization has awarded more than $6 million to fund research into diagnosis and treatment for the disease.

Watch the video explaining the foundation's work featured at the annual Strolling Supper with Blues and News.