Outside the Box

Gotham Capital partners promote cancer research with a $1 million prize.

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After Robert Goldstein, a managing partner at New York–based Gotham Capital, helped his mother, Hope, battle ovarian cancer from 2001 until her death in 2004, he turned much of his energy to seeking an out-of-the-box approach to cancer research.

Goldstein wanted to create something more dynamic than conventional grant funding — a bureaucratic and time-consuming process that favors established researchers and conventional ideas.

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