{"entity":{"id":"jim-valvano","kind":"person","name":"Jim Valvano","aka":[],"tldr":"Dying of metastatic cancer, he told an audience in 1993, \"Don't give up, don't ever give up,\" and announced a foundation that has since granted hundreds of millions of dollars to cancer research.","summary":"Jim Valvano (1946-1993) coached North Carolina State to the 1983 NCAA basketball championship and later worked as a broadcaster. In June 1992 he was diagnosed with metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary. On 4 March 1993, eight weeks before his death, he accepted the inaugural Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards with a speech in which he announced The V Foundation for Cancer Research, founded with ESPN, and closed with the words that became its motto. He died on 28 April 1993 at 47. The V Foundation has since awarded more than $350 million in research grants, with a scientific advisory committee choosing recipients and all direct donations going to research.","asOf":"2026-09-09","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Valvano","links":[{"label":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Valvano"},{"label":"The V Foundation","url":"https://www.v.org/"}],"tags":["public-figure","patient","advocate"],"related":[],"cancers":["cancer-of-unknown-primary"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-funding-allocation"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Basketball coach whose ESPY speech founded the V Foundation for Cancer Research","specialisms":["Cancer research funding","Public advocacy"],"profiles":[{"label":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Valvano"},{"label":"The V Foundation","url":"https://www.v.org/"}],"papers":[]},"route":"/people/jim-valvano/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"cancer-of-unknown-primary","kind":"cancer","name":"Cancer of unknown primary (CUP)","route":"/cancers/cancer-of-unknown-primary/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-funding-allocation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Funding follows fashion, not burden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/"}]}}