Women’s Health Research at Yale is very pleased to announce renewed support from the Mildred L. Cannon Trust, continuing a much cherished 14-year partnership.
Over the years, generous annual gifts from the Mildred L. Cannon Trust, based in Suffield, Connecticut, have helped WHRY initiate and support studies on breast, ovarian and lung cancer, and the effects of gender on cardiac health and recovery after bypass surgery.
“Our longstanding partnership with the Mildred L. Cannon Trust has been and remains extremely important to us as we advance women’s health in cardiac care and cancer interventions,” said Dr. Carolyn Mazure, Norma Weinberg Spungen and Joan Lebson Bildner Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Director of Women’s Health Research at Yale. “We will continue to honor the legacy of Mildred L. Cannon’s commitment to research by generating findings with practical benefits, for example, that women and men can have differing heart attack symptoms, or that treatment-resistant tumors can be targeted and destroyed with specially tailored, ultra-tiny nanoparticles.”
Kevin McCann, Trustee of the Mildred L. Cannon Trust and member of Women’s Health Research at Yale’s advisory Council, said “The Mildred L. Cannon Trust has continually supported WHRY because its research fills a void on studies of the two health conditions that were most important to Mrs. Cannon.”