Yosemite, which funds startups and researchers focused on the disease, is targeting a total of $350 million for its second fund from high-powered investors like pharma giant Amgen and hospital Memorial Sloan Kettering.
ByAmy Feldman,
Forbes Staff.
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eed Jobs was 12 when his father, Apple founder Steve Jobs, received a harrowing diagnosis: pancreatic cancer. He died eight years later at age 56.
That tragedy led the younger Jobs to become an investor funding companies focused on preventing people from dying of cancer, which currently kills more than 600,000 a year in the United States alone.
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