Elixir Fund East Coast Cocktails and Silent Auction

Category: Friends Published on 2012 Oct, 12

Members of the Teal Tea Foundation had the opportunity to support their “sister” foundation, The Elixir Fund, on Sunday, September 30 at Mercer Oaks in Princeton. Led by Executive Director, Meg McQuarrie, the Elixir Fund honors Meg’s brother, Kevin,

who lost his fight to cancer. Kevin called his chemotherapy treatments, his “Elixir”. He asked his friends and family to do so as well. As a result, the Elixir fund developed a philosophy of helping cancer patients and their care givers through the cancer

journey in a way that makes the experience more positive and bearable. The Teal Tea Foundation works closely with the Elixir Fund in a partnership of sustaining and helping each other achieve their missions. The Elixir Fund is national, so it has the resources and contacts to reach out and find answers for patients and care-givers on a huge geographical scale.

CINJ Physicians Among Nations Best

Category: Friends Published on 2012 Oct, 01

A friend of the Teal Tea Foundation, Dr. Lorna Rodriguez is named among the 'Top Docs' in the country. To see the full list of doctors from Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), click the link for the CINJ press release. Dr. Rodriguez is a past funding award recipient from the Teal Tea Foundation for her work in using Selenium in Preventing Ovarian Cancer Drug Resistance.

Changes in GYN/ONC at CINJ

Category: Friends Published on 2012 Sep, 01

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Lorna Rodriguez [past recipient of Teal Tea Foundation support] has accepted the directorship of CINJ’s Precision Medicine initiative, which will change the way that molecular and genetic information is being used to diagnose and treat cancer. Precision medicine is the use of recent advancements in genomic technology and biomedical informatics to provide a more personalized approach to prescribing cancer treatment and developing cancer therapies.