Donations to the Shelby Richter Fund

The Shelby Richter Fund welcomes your charitable contribution.  If Shelby touched you in any way, then please help us save, or at least help us treat others who are affected by sarcomas.   Your contribution will be (1) used to assist in medical research efforts towards finding a cure for sarcoma,(2) to help spread the awareness of this dreadful disease (3) Help provide scholarships to be awarded to two children going into parochial High School.

Please give as generously as you can to this great cause.  Your donation is tax deductible.  Every little bit helps.

Please send your donation to:

Shelby Richter Fund
P.O. Box 1023
Absecon, NJ 08201-1023

The Shelby Richter fund would like to thank you for your kindness towards donations to help with Sarcoma Research & Awareness as well as the Educational Scholarships that will be given to Absecon students every year.

2008 Donation to:

Sarcoma Foundation of America $30,000.00

What: Shelby L. Richter Memorial Research Award

Who: Frederick C. Eilber, MD

Where: UCLA, Division of Surgical Oncology

For: "Predicting treatment response of soft tissue sarcomas to neoadjuvant
therapy by imaging proliferation with a FLTPET/CT scan.

2007 Donation to:
Sarcoma Foundation of America $30,000.00

What:  Shelby L. Richter Memorial Research Award

Who:   Justin Cates, M.D., Ph.D.

Where:   Vanderbilt University Medical Center

For:   The proteomic profiles of bone and soft tissue sarcomas remain largely unexplored. The ?proteome? represents all protein isoforms expressed within a target tissue, including those with post-translational modifications. We are using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to evaluate proteomic differences between selected sarcomas and their presumed benign counterparts and/or normal tissues. The specific aim of this proposal is to identify sarcoma-specific differences in protein expression that
define the malignant phenotype. These findings may elucidate important mechanisms in sarcoma evelopment and lead to novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

2006 Donation to:

Sarcoma Foundation of America $30,000.00

What:  Shelby L. Richter Memorial Research Award

Who: Tsz-Kwong Man, Ph.D.

Where: Baylor College of Medicine

For: "Early identification of chemoresistant patients for improved risk-based therapy in pediatric osteosarcoma"