About the Program
Building the Infrastructure for a Cure
Our Mission
Care • Community • Cure
Kyra's Hope Foundation exists to bring hope, dignity, and comfort to children facing cancer. Our work spans three pillars: Care (direct support for families), Community (awareness and connection), and Cure (research funding and acceleration).
The Kyra Gupta Research Grant lives under the Cure pillar. It accelerates pediatric cancer research through two mechanisms: direct research funding and technology talent grants (the Kyra's Hope Fellowship). We believe that combining capital with computational expertise is the unique leverage point — many labs need both money and engineering support to translate discoveries into clinical progress.
Most foundations only write checks. We also deploy engineering teams — structured groups of volunteer software engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers working alongside researchers to accelerate breakthroughs.
End-to-End Model
How It Works
Funding Track
Researcher applies
Foundation evaluates
Grant awarded
Research advances
Progress reported
Technology Talent Track
Researcher applies
Foundation scopes
Volunteers matched
Team builds
Demo Day
The Team
Who We Are
Founded and led by Kyra's family, with deep roots in both the technology industry and the pediatric cancer community. Our team brings decades of experience in software engineering, product management, and nonprofit operations.
Partners
Partner Institutions
Partnerships forming — interested in collaborating? Contact us.
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