In 2018, the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin lost her life to a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

Even though the War against Cancer has already lasted 50 years, challenges to diagnosing and treating breast cancer remain.

In this episode, we delve into Mona’s background and how her organization Music Beats Cancer is helping cancer research companies make it through the valley of death.

Mona Jhaveri, the founder and executive director of Music Beats Cancer – a Ridgefield, CT-based non-profit focused on beating back cancer – joins the podcast to discuss several topics, including the current cancer-fighting research and technology landscape.

IES Life Sciences and Music Beats Cancer discuss the crowdfunding campaign to support the development of an early stage diagnostic for ovarian cancer.

#healthtech startups often fall into the Valley of Death because they can’t get funding to get them through to their next inflection point.

Music Beats Cancer Founder and Executive Director Dr. Mona Jhaveri joined 105.9 The Region to tell listeners how combining technology and crowdfunding is changing

No one seeks out failure, let alone likes it. Yet paradoxically, the key to success in medical innovation arguably rests on failure, and the learning it represents.

The fight for cancer has been something the world has been dealing with for centuries.

Mona Jhaveri is a cancer researcher and pioneer in strategies to get funding behind real potential treatments and cures.

Describing the cancer research “Valley of Death”

Miami, Florida, based musician King Cavalli has partnered up with crowdfunding platform Music Beats Cancer and is raising money during National Minority Cancer Awareness Month.

Launching Music Beats Cancer taught me a lot.

N2Entertainment.net spoke by phone with Michaels, who lives in Danville, California with his wife and two kids.

In 2014, Dr. Mona Jhaveri left academic research to revolutionize cancer funding by pioneering the online crowdfunding platform with her 501(c)(3) charity Music Beats Cancer.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — a time when the disease affecting hundreds of thousands of American women each year gets renewed attention.

Dr. Mona Jhaveri, cancer researcher and founder of Music Beats Cancer, a creative nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital that dense breast tissue occurs in half of all women ages 40 and up.

In honor of the late Aretha Franklin, known as ‘The Queen of Soul,’ who died of a rare form of pancreatic cancer on August 16, 2018, the 501(c)(3) charity Music Beats Cancer will host a free virtual tribute on Thursday, September 22, at 7:00 p.m. EST on LoopedLive, featuring an exclusive medley performed by R&B/hip-hop singer J. Holiday.

In honor of the late Aretha Franklin, known as ‘The Queen of Soul,’ who died of a rare form of pancreatic cancer on Aug. 16, 2018, the 501(c)(3) charity Music Beats Cancer will host a free virtual tribute on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7:00 p.m. EST on LoopedLive, featuring an exclusive medley performed by R&B/hip-hop singer J. Holiday.

Dr. Mona Jhaveri is another person who understands the power of art.

Research is not the biggest hurdle for scientists searching for a cancer cure; it’s the funding required to get their innovations to those in need.

Music Beats Cancer was planning a big reception at the BIO International Convention in San Diego; premiering the song written by a man who had battled cancer seemed like a great way to draw attention to the impact of the disease and the healing power of music.

“Access to care now is currently very slow because of fax, manual phone calls, manual insurance check, so the focus is automating the referral process from PCP to a specialty doctor,” explained Nour Lababidi.

In this Mental Health Minute video, Mona Jhaveri, PhD, of Music Beats Cancer discusses the under-researched area of mental health in patients with cancer and how Music Beats Cancer uses music to drive innovations that support the development of cancer-fighting solutions

Florida-based Singh Biotechnology is developing a new treatment approach that can shut off the “master switch” that controls cancer growth.

Many of the bands know firsthand the pain that cancer brings to the world.

In order to build the world’s most successful companies, CEOs and founders can’t be solely focused on their bottom line.

Our mission is to develop medicine and therapeutics that dramatically improve and save the lives of people worldwide suffering from diseases, including cancer.

For decades, women have widely been underrepresented in both the realm of entrepreneurship and the broader technology industry.

Traditionally, research gets the funding, but Jhaveri wanted to shift money to the biotech innovators bringing cancer-fighting ideas to the patients.

My Indian-American heritage played a pivotal role in my evolution from cancer researcher turned biotech entrepreneur to leader of an innovative cancer-fighting charitable platform, Music Beats Cancer.

Music Beats Cancer is a DC nonprofit that raises funds for innovators working on cancer-fighting solutions.

Too many potential cures for cancer disappear in a funding bottleneck.

Not everyone has to like or agree with you, but it’s your job to plant the seeds of change.

The existence of the “Valley of Death” has led some innovators and cancer researchers to find or create additional means to obtain funding for potential solutions in the ongoing fight against cancer.

Sonogen is partnering with DMV area non-profit Music Beats Cancer to raise funding to achieve the goal of reaching FDA regulatory approval. CEO of Sonogen Medical, Jason Winder, says the idea was inspired by his family who served in the armed forces.

Christina Custode (Cus-to-– de),– an acclaimed musician and award-winning vocalist based out of the Greater Buffalo area, has teamed up with Music Beats Cancer, a one-of-a-kind nonprofit, supporting the innovators working on cancer-beating solutions by fundraising through rising artists.

Already well-known for her live concerts – prepandemic, Custode was regularly touring around the region – and her talent – Custode is a Grammy Award-contending singer/songwriter/pianist – Custode has added virtual concerts to her repertoire.

Niagara Falls High School music teacher Christina Custode has more than a few pandemic-related challenges in her life right now, but she’s still has time to advocate for cancer awareness.

“We are developing a pathogen-reduction technology called CFI to clear blood plasma, plasma products, biologics and medical devices of viruses and other pathogens.

Aphios International is developing a generally applicable pathogen reduction technology for pooled blood plasma and blood products, immunoglobulins, recombinant biologics and monoclonal antibodies used to treat cancer and COVID-19 patients.

The unique crowdfunding platform partners with musical artists across the US from various genres to raise money for cancer fighting solutions that are at risk of disappearing in a “funding bottleneck”.

A Maryland biotech company developed a test to help predict how sick you can get from COVID-19.

To help get this product to the market and into doctors’ hands, developers have partnered with the crowdfunding platform Music Beats Cancer.

The scientists have found an uncommon source to funding the test through a nonprofit called Music Beats Cancer.

IES Life Sciences and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s school of pharmacy are in the process of developing a nasal swab test that could predict the severity of COVID-19 symptoms a patient could face after testing positive.

For CEO David Spiegel, the mission quickly became personal due to the impacts of COVID-19 on his family.

A Milwaukee area native is using her music and platform to help fight cancer by teaming up with Music Beats Cancer, which raises funds to advance new cancer treatments.

On CBS 58 Sunday Morning, Brittany Lewis spoke with singer-songwriter Jules Iolyn about this new effort to combat the deadly disease.

One local musician is teaming up with the non-profit organization Music Beats Cancer.

A Coshocton native living in New York City the past five years is using his music to bring awareness to the battle against cancer.

“Our mission is to increase the number of cancer-fighting technologies in the product development pipeline so that more solutions make it to those in need” – Music Beats Cancer

She was a cancer researcher for the National Cancer Institute on the path to discovering a new potential treatment.

Music Beats Cancer is a nonprofit that raises money to help give more cancer research the chance to become new cancer solutions.

Dr. Jhaveri explains how Music Beats Cancer strategically aligns with emerging musical artists to help us generate a movement of change in the war on cancer.

If we ever wondered how important research is to identifying causes and cures for diseases that afflict society, the past nine months of the pervasive coronavirus have eliminated all doubt.

Music Beats Cancer is a new cancer-fighting movement that capitalizes on influencers of our popular culture to help raise funds and awareness for promising cancer-fighting innovations.

Translational research, the process of translating early discoveries into effective treatments for patients, is sometimes referred to as the “Valley of Death.” Why?

She launched Music Beats Cancer to address the “Valley of Death,” the growing gap in funding that constrains the translation of cancer research discoveries into clinical applications.

Music Beats Cancer is changing the narrative for the war on cancer.

When scientist Mona Jhaveri couldn’t find funding to commercialize her cancer research discovery, she was inspired to create a crowdfunding platform for cancer drug innovators.

Not everyone has to like or agree with you, but it’s your job to plant the seeds of change. As part of my interview series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Mona Jhaveri. She is the Founder and Executive director at Music Beats Cancer. She launched Music Beats Cancer to address the “Valley of Death,”

The Platform Magazine June 2018 Issue features CEO Mona Jhaveri of Music Beats Cancer.

A first-of-its-kind charitable crowdfunding platform, called Music Beats Cancer, has set out to change how the war on cancer is fought and financed.

Healthcare innovators tackle how to improve the experience of those fighting for a healthy future.

Cancer sucks… we all know it’s not going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean we can’t battle it with all our might.

The Music Beats Cancer model empowers individuals to directly fund promising treatments.