The MACC Fund, Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc., contributed $1.2 million on June 30 to its three beneficiaries, the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. These research contributions took the total of the MACC Fund’s contributions since its inception in 1976 to over $50 million.
MACC Fund supported scientific research is conducted in the 14,000 square foot MACC Fund Childhood Cancer Research Wing of the Wisconsin Interdisciplinary Medical Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, including research performed by the division of Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant in the Department of Pediatrics.