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 is featured in The Next Big Thing’s episode “7,000 Diseases. 4,800 Drugs. The Gap in Modern Medicine“, watch the video here or listen to the podcast here, May 2026
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
