Six Degrees of Separation Dinner

What if somebody told you that saving lives was in your genes?

What if somebody told you that saving lives was in your genes? Well, it’s true. Our genes hold the key to finding cures for thousands of inherited diseases that affect us and our families everyday, like breast cancer, heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, haemophilia and leukaemia just to name a few.

Cure The Future (Cell and Gene Trust) helps fund medical research into cell and gene therapies using new platform scientific research to revolutionise our ability to cure disease.

Gene Therapy sounds simple enough.

You give someone a healthy gene, to replace a faulty one.

But it's not such a simple process. It involves the use of new technology, a combination of gene therapy and cell research, specifically targeting the root genetic cause of inherited diseases.

Cell and gene therapy involves delivering a healthy gene into the patient's target cells via a harmless virus vector. Once the virus binds to the cell it then injects the DNA that it contains into the cell and that cell then takes up that DNA, makes it its own and then produces whatever the cell is told to make, thereby eliminating the faulty 'disease-causing' gene.

At the forefront of this pioneering research is Professor John Rasko. He is a world-renowned gene therapy scientist and practising haematologist based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Professor Rasko is also the, Chairman of the federal GTTAC (The Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee) and board director of Cure The Future.

2010 “Six Degrees of Separation” Dinner

Cure The Future holds our “Six Degrees of Separation” Dinner annually to help raise research funds and we would be delighted if you would join us this year.

You can help show your support for Cure The Future by purchasing a sponsorship packages for our annual “Six Degrees of Separation” Dinner to be held at the Ivy on the 28th October 2010. The night will commence at 6:00pm with arrival canapés and drinks, followed by a three course dinner and drinks. The evening will be a fun filled with 300 people attending; there will be live entertainment, auctions and raffles.

Over the past three years the annual “Six Degrees of Separation” Dinner has raised more than $450,000 for this worthy cause, and in 2010 we are hoping to make the event even bigger and better with the goal of raising $200,000.

Sponsorship is an essential element of the Dinner’s success as a fundraiser and it also brings significant benefits for the participating companies and businesses.

Sponsors of the 2010 “Six Degrees of Separation” Dinner will receive great benefits including, but not limited to;

• The chance to support Cure The Future and enhance your company image
• Exposure of company logo on the big screen and in the event program
• Opportunities for business development with a new audience
• An opportunity to entertain clients
• Receive recognition in all press releases issued about the event
• Receive recognition in the Cure The Future newsletter
• Receive recognition on the Cure The Future website

How can you help Cure The Future?

• Become a sponsor packages start at $5000
• Purchase a table of 10 for $3000
• Purchase a ticket $300pp
• Donate prizes for the auction and raffle
• Donate items for the gift bags

By sponsoring or attending this event the funds raised will go towards much needed medical research. You can be secure in the knowledge that you are helping future generations.

Please find attached information on the range of sponsorship packages available and additional benefits for your company.Please contact me as soon as possible to secure one of our strictly limited sponsorship packages on 02 9035 7487 or email info@curethefuture.org.

I hope that you will consider supporting this year’s “Six Degrees of Separation” Dinner and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Warmest Regards,

Karina Dealtry
Fundraising Manager

P.SCure The Future is committed to funding research which might one day lead to finding the cures for thousands of genetically inherited diseases – so our children and grandchildren will not have to suffer from them in the future. And we want you to be a part of it!