Research · Innovation · Education
Doctoring is discovering
The CureRays Innovation & Education Institute exists to make radiation medicine safer, gentler, and available to everyone — by funding the research that improves it, publishing what we learn without a paywall, teaching the clinicians who deliver it, and placing working equipment in the hands of communities that have none.
A California nonprofit corporation with 501(c)(3) status. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Our mission
Why the Institute exists
The CureRays Innovation & Education Institute exists to make radiation medicine safer, gentler, and available to everyone — by funding the research that improves it, publishing what we learn without a paywall, teaching the clinicians who deliver it, and placing working equipment in the hands of communities that have none.
The Institute is the non-profit partner of CureRays Radiation Medicine. The clinic treats patients. The Institute studies whether that treatment can be made better, teaches what is learned, and works to put it within reach of people who currently have no access to it at all. The two are separate organisations with separate books.
What we do
Four pillars
Research
Bench, translational, and clinical study of cancer and therapeutic light rays — including trials that ask whether the same result can be had with less burden on the patient.
Innovation
Practical advances that shorten treatment, reduce side effects, and bring specialist-level radiation care closer to where people live.
Education
A free library of plain-language guides for patients, and formal instruction for the clinicians and therapists who deliver this care.
Philanthropy
Placing donated radiation equipment where none exists, and training the people who will run it.
Open knowledge
Everything we teach, free to read
The patient education library
Plain-language guides to cancers and benign conditions treated with radiation — what it is, how it is staged, what the standard of care is, how radiation works on it, and which studies are changing that. No account, no paywall, no advertising.
IJRM-SSS, the Institute’s journal
The International Journal of Radiation Medicine — Screening, Surveillance, Survivorship, published with the International Society for Radiation Immunity and Immuno-Modulation (SIRiiM). Authors retain ownership of their work, and proceeds fund the researchers and peer reviewers directly.
Access
Getting this care to where it isn’t
A hub-and-spoke model
Radiation oncologists at central facilities supervise and collaborate with primary-care and dermatology partners in community clinics — extending specialist expertise closer to where patients live.
Equipment where there is none
Hospitals, clinics and private practices donate superficial radiation units they no longer use. The Institute coordinates with partners in the Philippines and Pakistan to place that equipment where it will train therapists and treat patients — and helps donors establish fair market value for the deduction.
Accountability
How the Institute is organised
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit
The CureRays Innovation & Education Institute is a California nonprofit corporation with 501(c)(3) status. Donations qualify under Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Separate from the clinic
CureRays Radiation Medicine is a for-profit medical practice and a separate entity. The Institute does not bill for patient care, and charitable funds do not subsidise clinical operations.
What we publish
Research findings are published through IJRM-SSS whether or not they favour the treatments we use. Patient education is free and carries no advertising.
Conflict of interest
The Institute’s founder also runs the affiliated for-profit practice. That is a real conflict, and we would rather state it than have you find it.
Support the mission
Ways to give
Donate equipment
A superficial unit you have retired can become a regional cancer centre’s only machine.
Fund research
Support the trials and translational work that test whether this care can be made gentler.
Partner with us
Institutions, societies and industry partners collaborate on education, publishing and equipment placement abroad.
Looking for treatment?
Patient care is delivered by CureRays Radiation Medicine, a separate clinical practice, at www.curerays.com.