Mission Statement
• We are a charitable foundation dedicated to funding innovative
scientific and medical research that will exploit the broad spectrum
of potential that stem cells exhibit in their curative properties;
projects that will help defeat the scourges of inherited diseases
such as Prostate Cancer, Sickle Cell Anemia, Alzheimer’s
and Diabetes.
George Hazen Lilley, Sr.
• This charity is named in honor of the late George Hazen
Lilley, Sr. “Pop Pop” or “Uncle George”,
as he will always be remembered, was born in 1903 in the wooded
farmlands of southern Georgia in a small town called Pidcock.
As a young man, he ventured North and settled in Philadelphia,
PA with his beautiful wife, Lucele, where they began a family
which grew and grew…and grew. Lucele once jokingly commented
about having 12 children,”It seemed like there was another
one every Saturday night!”. Though he survived multiple
heart attacks and years of cigarette smoking, prostate cancer
took “Pop Pop” from us in 1994 at the age of 90. He
is remembered as a family man, a devoted husband, father, grandfather,
great grandfather, uncle, actor, orator, comedian, Prince Hall
Mason and entrepreneur. He may not have been famous, he may may
not have had a great amount of financial reward in life but he
was rich without bounds with the love and admiration of his family
and friends.
Stem Cell Therapy can be defined as “a
group of cutting edge techniques and/or technologies that focus
on replacing diseased or dysfunctional cells with healthy, functioning
ones”. These new techniques are being applied experimentally
to a wide range of human disorders, including many cancers, neurological
diseases and blood disorders.
To give an example of the possibilities that are emerging, doctors
now believe that cancerous tumors actually “trick”
healthy stem cells into being encompassed by the tumors, thereby
causing the tumors to grow and metastasize. Researchers are currently
working to solve this puzzle by finding the factors that cause
these reactions. Their work is the first step in defeating this
process. One will notice that where chemotherapy was developed
to attack cancers at the cellular level, advances in stem cell
therapy will now allow researchers to attack at the molecular
level!
Similar advancements are possible with other diseases
. . . but we NEED YOUR HELP!
