Taste for a Cure
About Taste for a Cure
Thank you for celebrating with us!
Please join us on Friday May 2, 2025 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for a very special evening honoring Ravi Ahuja, Chief Executive Officer, Sony Pictures Entertainment, as he accepts the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award. Taste for a Cure 2025 will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, with a special musical performance by Luke Bryan.
Taste for a Cure unites the entertainment and epicurean communities and consistently ranks among the top ten culinary events in Southern California. Every year, we look forward to sharing this special evening, all while raising valuable funds for leading-edge cancer research at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
For information about purchasing tables or sponsorship for Taste for a Cure 2025, please contact Jacqui Farina at or
Board of Directors
The UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation is guided by a Board of Directors representing community and business leaders united in the commitment to end cancer through research. View the Board of Directors roster
Taste for a Cure Co-Chairs
2024 Event Sponsors
Joe Cohen
Head of Television
Creative Artists Agency
E. Brian Dobbins
Talent Manager / Producer
Artist First
Jon Holman
President
The Holman Group
Jake Kasdan
Producer, Director, Writer, Filmmaker
James Myerson
Breakthru Beverage
Tendo Nagenda
Producer
Film Executive
Gary Newman
Executive Partner
Attention Capital
Erik Nickel
Partner
Far Niente Family of Wines
Keri Shahidi
Producer
7th Sun Productions
Sandra Stern
Vice Chairman
Lionsgate Television Group
Dana Walden
Co-Chairman
Disney Entertainment
Arthur Wayne
VP, Global Brand Marketing & Communication
Brooks Brothers
Premier Sponsors
UCLA Health
David Geffen School of Medicine
Erik Nickel & Michael Loftis
Jake Kasdan & Inara George
Wendy & Mike Wiley
Endeavor TKO
Benefactor Sponsors
Chami Family Foundation
Disney
Ali Jassim
Randy & Kathy Katz
LIONSGATE
Jay Sures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
United Talent Agency
Dana & Matt Walden
Manizheh Yomtoubian
Patron Sponsors
Brooks Brothers
UCLA Division of Hematology/Oncology
Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LLP / Cinetic Media
Sandra Stern
Translational Research In Oncology-US (TRIO)
Friend Sponsors
7th Sun Productions / The Shahidi Family
A+E
CAA
Eileen Coskey Fracchia and Don Fracchia
Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang
Gelfand, Rennert, & Feldman LLC
General Hospital / Frank Valentini
Grace Ford Salvatori Foundation and Wanda Cannon
Tomoko Matsumoto
June Moredock & Rich Barnett
Robert Morgenstern
Tendo Nagenda
Randy & Susanne Steinberg
William Tanner & Terre Steinbeck
UCLA Department of Head & Neck Surgery
UCLA Department of Medicine
UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and UCLA Division of Gynecologic Oncology
UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology
UCLA Department of Surgical Oncology
Partners
Alila Napa Valley Resort
Angelini Restaurant
Breakthru Beverage / The Myerson Family
Brooks Brothers
Carnegie Hall
Chinois on Main
Delta Air Lines
Far Niente, Nickel & Nickel, Bella Union
Flowers in Beverly Hills
LA Dodgers / Dave Roberts
Mustard's Grill
Quality Branded Restaurant Group
Tasting Thyme
The Mercer Hotel
The Public Theater
Violetto Restaurant
Media Partner
The Hollywood Reporter
Be a Sponsor of Taste for a Cure
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