About SagerStrong Foundation

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"Giving Hope to Those Who Need it Most!" The SagerStrong Foundation mission is to "give hope" to those battling blood cancer through raising funds for programming to support patients and their families in their fight, as well as for blood cancer research, to help one day find a cure for this live-threatening disease.

The SAGERSTRONG Foundation was founded in 2016 by two-time Emmy Award winner and Hall of Fame Sportscaster and Personality Craig Sager and his wife Stacy, to fund and support blood cancer research, trials, and programming, so that one day, leukemia patients and their families will not have to go through the battle they endured.  The Foundation has raised over 2.5 million dollars to help fund blood cancer research, including two clinical trials at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.  These important trials support Dr. Naveen Pemmaraju's (Craig's doctor) research with current Myelofibrosis patients and patients with Advanced Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. The SagerStrong Foundation has also funded a grant with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to support the Beat AML Master Trial.  The SagerStrong Foundation recently partnered with the V Foundation for Cancer Research on a two-year, cutting-edge research project grant for recipient Dr. Ami Bhatt, for her project entitled “Precisely Shaping the Intestinal Microbiome to Improve Cancer Therapy Outcomes.”  Bhatt’s research will explore how dietary changes might improve the intestinal environment in cancer patients.  Her goal is to improve therapies with the information she learns. 

The Foundation hosts two fundraisers annually -- the SagerStrong Foundation Stadium Fun Run at Truist Park, and the Living Out Loud Golf Tournament  to raise funds for research and programming in memory of Craig Sager, who lost his battle to cancer in 2016.

For more information on these trials, research, the #SagerStrong Foundation and events, or to make a donation to support this important work, please visit sagerstrongfoundation.org.