Susan Solomon, the co-founder (right at her kitchen in 2005 with Mary Elizabeth Bunzel) and long time CEO of the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF), just succumbed to cancer.  She first became a health care advocate  in 1992, when her son, Ben Goldberger, was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes, at the age of 9.  Soon after her mother’s death from cancer in 2004 and a political decision by the US Government, she knew that stem cell research was the best hope for her son’s condition and for folks like her mom with cancer.   That’s what led to the founding of NYSCF.

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