January 30, 2018
Max Cure’s Advocacy Efforts Against the Harmful Right to Try Legislation The Max Cure Foundation’s advocacy efforts round out our three-prong mission and sometimes place members […]
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January 8, 2018
The Max Cure Foundation’s Aggressive Research Mission and Continued Legacy of Support for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Almost ten years ago, Max Plotkin sat anxiously […]
June 22, 2017
One of the three pillars of Max Cure’s mission is funding research. Since our beginning, when Max was diagnosed in 2007 and fighting for his life, […]
July 1, 2016
Jonathan Agin, JD, Executive Director’s Public Comments before the Pediatric Subcommittee of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (pedODAC) Meeting. On June 29, 2016, I was one of […]
June 28, 2016
Follow the Internet: Food Stamps Should Be Redeemable Online As American shopping shifts from the brick-and-mortar stores to online retail, and even groceries have innovated for […]
June 10, 2016
Youth Football Raises Money for Childhood Cancer On May 21st and 22nd, 2016, The Max Cure Foundation and Casa Grande Union High School joined forces to host […]
December 23, 2015
You are brought into a small room: a doctor, a nurse, a social worker and you. The look on their faces is dire. You can feel the fear building; it is palpable. And then you hear the words I’m sorry, “your child has cancer.” This scenario repeats itself 43 times each day in the United States. In April 2008, my family heard those words about our 2-year-old daughter Alexis. Alexis fought against inoperable and terminal brain cancer for 33 months before passing away in January 2011. Similarly, in May 2007, David and Annemarie Plotkin heard these words about 4-year-old Max. Max now stands as a “poster child” for giving other families hope.
December 22, 2015
Max Cure's Executive Director, Jonathan Agin provides commentary on Matthew Zachary's Piece and the Premature Argument that it is "Mission Accomplished."
September 17, 2015
On September 1, 2015 I began a new journey in my life. September 1, 2015 marks my first official day as the first Executive Director for […]