Press Releases and Media Coverage
Here are some of our press releases, videos of events, presentations and other media coverage. Please contact us at info@cureswithinreach.org for more information on our research, donor-advised philanthropy, patient education events and more.
Press Releases
2026
April 9, 2026: Cures Within Reach Approves Five Clinical Trials at Chicago-based Research Institutions. Clinical trials are led by early-stage investigators and/or impact health equity, veterans and pediatrics. Future funding increased to offset cuts in medical research funding
February 25, 2026: Cures Within Reach Selected Three Clinical Trials in Rare/Ultra-Rare Diseases to Validate AI Predictions. These clinical trials highlight opportunities that AI models offer the rare/ultra-rare community
February 11, 2026: Cures Within Reach Selected Seven More Clinical Trials to Address Factors that Lead to High Disease Burden in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries. Cures Within Reach has launched its next Request for Proposals to fund up to 9 additional clinical trials in 2026
2025
June 2, 2025: Cures Within Reach Opens Call to Fund Clinical Trials that Validate AI-Generated Drug-Disease Repurposing Matches. Trials have the potential to fast-track treatment options for patients with limited therapeutic alternatives
2024
December 17, 2024: Cures Within Reach Receives Grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Fund Clinical Trials that Validate AI-Generated Drug-Disease Repurposing Matches. Trials have the potential to fast-track treatment options for patients with limited therapeutic alternatives
December 9, 2024: Cures Within Reach and Open Philanthropy Expand Partnership to Address Factors that Lead to High Disease Burden in Low / Lower-Middle Income Countries. Cures Within Reach will fund 16 additional clinical trials in next two years.
August 14, 2024: Two Clinical Trials Impacting US Veterans Now Underway. Cures Within Reach will select two more veterans’ focused clinical trials later in 2024.
January 23, 2024: Four clinical trials impacting high disease burden in LMICs will start soon. Cures Within Reach also announces its latest success story and a multi-year grant from Open Philanthropy focused on LMICs.
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Cures Within Reach’s 20 year story shared in Chronicle of Philanthropy: “How One Nonprofit Uses Small Grants to Spark Bigger Giving and Impact“, April 2026
Cures Within Reach quoted in USA Today: “Could treatments for rare disease be found in neighborhood pharmacies? New uses for old drugs offer promise“, Dec 2021
Cures Within Reach featured in Inside Philanthropy: “Hiding in Plain Sight: A Funder Hunting for Lifesaving Alternate Uses for Existing Treatments”, July 2021
