The Cure Is Now

The Cure is Now (www.thecureisnow.org) is a is an American, 501(c)3, nonprofit organization dedicated to developing personalized medical treatments for patients using emerging and advanced technology. The organization has gone national with its three programs: Awareness Campaigns, Educational Initiatives and Scientific Research.
History
The Cure is Now was founded by Annmarie Santiago in 2009. After losing people close to her due to various types of incurable diseases, AnnMarie dedicated her life to advancing medicine. Rather than targeting any particular disease, she set up a nonprofit organization that funds and supports research with a good chance of resulting in breakthrough treatments, technologies, inventions and cures. The Cure is Now is currently able to fundraise in 43 states, has launched it’s awareness campaigns and education initiatives and is supporting cutting edge research programs.
About The Cure is Now
The Cure is Now is a nonprofit group dedicated to disrupting the field of medical research. The group claims that university, governmental and industrial health systems inhibit an entrepreneurial spirit in the medical research sector. Leading scientists in emerging and advanced research have joined The Cure is Now's three science advisory boards. The Cure is Now also places value in extrapolating Moore’s law which is believed by many to result in accelerating returns that will transform the way research and technology translates into medicine.
The mission of The Cure is Now is accomplished through awareness campaigns, educational initiatives and research programs.
Awareness campaigns help make the general public aware of new treatments and new possibilities in medicine. Groups of volunteers managed by The Cure is Now communicate with thousands of people every day about new treatments that will be available in the near future. The public is also made aware of The Cure is Now’s mission and goals. One aspect of Awareness Campaigns is the “We Are The Cure” musical benefit album that has yet to be recorded and launched.
Educational Initiatives at The Cure is Now will focus on two main streams, an educational film and the publication of research.
Research Programs at The Cure is Now will be rolled out in a three phased plan:
:Phase 1 - Begin funding independent research projects and establishing a command and leadership center.
:Phase 2 - Build and staff small research labs. There will be four to start with: one in New York, one in Cambridge, MA, one in Silicon Valley and one overseas.
:Phase 3 - Build, staff and manage a world-class research complex. Their unique research methodology, groundbreaking technology and science will converge to produce novel treatments and medicines that will help people live longer, healthy lives.
The Cure is Now has a broad and ambitious goal of discovering cures for acquired, congenital and developmental diseases, they feel they can accomplish via the research methodology as laid out below:
:Curiosity Driven Research - The Cure is Now will fund scientific investigators and their teams who research aspects of disease pathology, biological systems, or biotechnological mechanisms. This type of research will yield enhanced understanding, deepened knowledge, unpredictable, long term, and widely-dispersed social and medical benefit.
:Applied Research - Research funded by The Cure is Now will lead to direct medical applications such as enhanced treatments, targeted gene therapy, technology-based solutions and more.
:Synergistic Research - This unique kind of research will be aimed at linking and connecting different kinds of science and technology. For example, how can stem-cell research be connected with brain-machine interface technology or how can nanotechnology be employed in Alzheimer’s research? The Cure is Now will explore these potentially beneficial intersections.
:Unknown-unknown Research - The Cure is Now understands that the kind of research it will support undoubtedly will lead to entirely new fields and forms of research. The Cure is Now will selectively support these as well.
Current projects
The Cure is Now is currently supporting regenerative medicine research at The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. They recently donated a $100,000.00 nSpec microscope to the institute.
The Cure is Now has assembled an advisory board of leaders in the field of cutting edge medicine, computer science, biotechnology, synthetic biology and others.
Plans to fund independent research projects and build research facilities are underway.
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Why do we need The Cure Is Now?
The Cure Is Now is a science and technology advocacy and research organization. Applying new technology to a variety of medical needs is our goal. One of our many programs is to develop, adapt and converge disparate and emerging technologies in brilliant and innovative ways that result in breakthrough medical solutions. There is a social routine where unfortunate friends and relatives of disease stricken loved ones rally around a cause centered at “stamping out” or “beating a disease.” The Cure Is Now firmly believes that solutions surface is not simply the rallying around a particular disease because it has ‘suddenly’ become relevant in your life, but rather via the epiphany that comes with understanding how something called the Technological Singularity will yield new science that will give us the tools to eliminate many diseases.
We are not so bold as to think that we can solely tackle all of the diseases in the world, when thousands of such organizations have failed to do so collectively - it is precisely the opposite. We are the only medical research & advocacy organization with our specific programs that are developing the technologies that all of the other organizations will be able to utilize to achieve their individual missions. Diseases, as were small pox and polio for example, will eventually be eliminated because of science and technology. The Cure Is Now admires and respects the efforts of the multitude of non-governmental organizations and charities, which support and rally the victims and associates of whatever particular disease has affected their lives. We also don't believe there is an urgent need for yet another cancer or AIDS or similar type of charity pop up because the many thousands of organizations that are currently out there do more than enough to address the issues that they are focused on.
The Cure is Now does not believe in duplicating the efforts of these fine world-class institutions, that is why The Cure Is Now is an established leader in applying groundbreaking and “Singularity Technologies” to the medical field. No other organization matches our programs and operations, nor offers the unique solutions we do. This is not because others haven't wanted to find cures either. What makes The Cure is Now’s situation is different in that breakthrough technological opportunities are just now unfolding before us, and the next several years ahead of us will be the fulcrum where a fundamental paradigm-shift occurs and The Cure is Now will take advantage of this.
Imagine the world many hundred of years from now where mankind has become sufficiently advanced and a great number of human ailments and diseases have been eliminated via technology-based cures. Many of today’s epidemics like cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease will be treated with nothing more than a routine trip to the doctor’s office.
This website offers very clear, detailed and unambiguous information including specifics on our plan and the details of programs that will be utilized to achieve the goal in our mission statement the elimination of disease through technology. We Need The Cures, The Time Is Now, The Cure Is Now!
Board of directors
* Kasia Przechodzka
* Yusef Brodsky
* Lily Dupart
* Joseph Potente
* Grethel Hoozky

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