The Max Vincze Foundation funds innovative research to discover therapies for NUT carcinoma and other rare young adult cancers.
The Max Vincze Foundation is honored to receive donations in honor of William Hayes.
Maximizing hope for future breakthroughs.
At the Max Vincze Foundation, our mission is to make targeted investments in research that focus on groundbreaking discoveries, specifically targeting rare cancers found in adolescents and young adults such as NUT carcinoma.
ABOUT US
The Max Vincze Foundation was founded by Craig, Suzanne and Ben Vincze in honor of their late son and brother Max, who tragically lost his battle with NUT Carcinoma, an untreatable and lethal form of cancer that predominantly afflicts adolescents and young adults.
The Vincze family recognized the urgent need to address the lack of viable treatment options for adolescents and young adults facing this aggressive and deadly cancer. With unwavering determination, they have transformed their personal tragedy into a mission to empower research and find new treatments.
SPRING UPDATE 2024
UNC’s Personalized Immunotherapy Research Lab
Powered by the incredible success of the fundraising we did in 2023, the foundation has embarked on a groundbreaking partnership with the University of North Carolina's Personalized Immunotherapy Research Lab (PIRL). With a $25,000 donation, fully funded by our remarkable donors, we are at the forefront of battling a rare and challenging cancer known as NUT carcinoma. For more, click
OUR CHARITABLE PURPOSE
With your help, we provide financial support to research labs that are challenged with securing sufficient funding to make the “big discoveries” that lead to treatments and cures for rare cancers.
Private funding gives researchers the latitude they need to look past established ways of doing things and to try unconventional approaches that are crucial for finding new treatments and even cures for rare diseases like NUT carcinoma.
Your support for innovative research is the way cancer treatments will get better, be less toxic, and have more successful outcomes for young people like Max and others faced with this devastating disease.
OUR INITIATIVES
After nearly a year of due diligence, the Max Vincze Foundation committed to making its very first gift to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA to strengthen efforts to find a treatment for NUT carcinoma. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute established and maintains the extremely important NUT Carcinoma International Registry and are developing new, promising treatments and ushering them into clinical trials as quickly as possible.
Thanks to our generous donors, the Max Vincze Foundation was able to complete the last installment of a $100,000 donation to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in July of 2023.
Left to right: Suzanne Vincze, Ben Vincze (Max’s brother), Taylor Durall, Craig Vincze, Dora Huang and Dr. Chris French, M.D.