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Benefitting the STEELE CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTER
(www.crc.arizona.edu)
In 1987, the Women's Active 20-30 Club joined the Steele Children's Research Center in the fight against chronic childhood diseases. In 1992, 20-30 established a mini-endowment dedicated to improving the health and well being of children in Arizona and throughout the world. The endowment was later named in memory of former Club President Melody Luyties, who lost her battle with cancer in 1999. Over the years, the 20-30 Club has funded dozens of research projects at Steele, including:
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Hope for Type 1 Diabetics
An experimental device that holds promise to cure juvenile diabetes by transplanting healthy insulin-producing beta cells.
Lifesaving Discoveries
about early heart development to rescue babies afflicted with cardiac abnormalities - the most common birth defect that impacts one in 100 newborn babies.
Tackling common cancerous tumors
in children, neuroblastoma, by studying the effect of new theraputic treatments on this deadly cancer.
The Steele Children's Research Center is grateful for the 20-30 Club's ongoing commitment. With the Club's help, our world-class researchers work together to solve the medical problems that plague our children. Our pediatricians, who also are members of the University of Arizona Pediatrics faculty and University Physicians, playa unique role in the community.
The Steele doctors have a three-fold mission - to heal, to teach and to discover. They are general pediatricians and pediatric specialists taking care of sick children throughout the state. They are researchers - making discoveries to improve health care for children around the world. And they are teachers, training medical students from the UA College of Medicine and mentoring pediatric residents so these young medical professionals develop top-notch clinical skills and compassion towards the patients and families they serve.
What these researchers learn in their labs has direct application to patient care. And by also taking care of sick children, these doctors understand the urgency to make progress in medical research.
The Steele Children's Research Center was named in honor of the late Horace W. Steele of Phoenix. The Steele Foundation made a lead gift in 1990 to help build the Steele Center. The Steele Center is very proud that the Women's Active 20-30 Club is a long-time partner in our quest to create a better future for all children.
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