This Is Why They Swim Across America
The NBC Nightly News broadcast coverage of Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD who heads up the Swim Across America Laboratory at the world-renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.Dr. Wolchok, an oncologist who specializes in the treatment of melanoma, led the effort at the Swim Across America Lab to develop ipilumumab, the first melanoma drug to be approved by the United States Food & Drug Administration agency in over 13 years.
Swim Across America Executive Director Janel Jorgensen proudly comments, “Jedd and his team are now taking that drug and, in combination with radiation, seeing even more promising results. He hopes that the same approach they are doing for melanoma could work with kidney, lung and other cancers.
Swim Across America is so proud to continue to support all the incredible research that Jedd and his team are doing at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. They are doing incredible work. Discoveries like this are why we swim and do what we do [raising over US$41 million].”
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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