Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Across Life Sciences R&D Meeting

Cures Within Reach’s philanthropic pitch event will have 4 PIs presenting their clinical repurposing trials for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion competing for up to $70,000 in clinical trial funding, with attendees having the opportunity to vote on the winning trial!

To join the CureAccelerator Live! event, you must be a registered attendee. To access the event, log into your DIA account, select "My Events", go to, "Access Virtual Conference" under the "Advancing DEI Across Life Sciences R&D Meeting". Scroll down the agenda and select, "Join the Event" in the text box called out on the left side of your screen. Please note that this is the only way to join the event"

Finalists
Edilberto Amorim, MD, University of California, San Francisco: Testing the epilepsy drug perampanel to prevent seizures after cardiac arrest

Yohannes Ghebre, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine: A new use of the antacid drug esomeprazole to treat morphea, a chronic connective tissue disease

Sheldon Holder, MD, PhD, Brown University: Repurposing the prostate cancer drug degarelix to treat bladder cancer

Natasha Shur, MD, Children's National Research Institute: Using steroids to improve outcomes in rhabdomyolysis in pediatric patients