More than 50 golfers took to the greens at Leewood Golf Club in Eastchester for the Westchester Neuroscience Research Foundation’s 3rd Annual Golf Outing.
John Abrahams, MD, founder/director of the WNRF, said the foundation is expanding its scope into research for spinal cord and head injuries. “We look for researchers who are cutting-edge and may find it hard to find traditional funding because they are the ones leading the innovative work of the future.”
Attendees paid $500 for golf, lunch, a putting contest, cocktail reception, and auction. (Non-golfers paid $175 to attend the cocktail reception..
Proceeds from the event help support potentially life-saving research and clinical trials to fight brain tumors. The foundation helped to launch the Westchester Brain Tumor Program with the Cancer Center at Northern Westchester Hospital and Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York last year to make national clinical trials available in the Westchester area.