City of Hope’s National Professional Salon Industry is honored to bestow the Spirit of Life Award to a very good industry leader Reuben Carranza, CEO of Wella, the Salon Professional Division of P&G, North America. The National Professional Salon Industry recognizes industry leaders every year for his or her contributions on the Spirit of Life Award Gala.

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A leading research, treatment and education center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases, City of Hope will hold their City of Hope 2013 Spirit of Life Award Gala Saturday, July 13, 2013 inside the South Seas Ballroom from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Cosmoprof North America in Las Vegas.

This year, City of Hope’s National Professional Salon Industry will honor Reuben Carranza, North American CEO of Wella, the Salon Professional Division of P&G, with its most prestigious philanthropic honor, the 2013 Spirit of Life Award presented annually to an industry leader who has demonstrated outstanding business and altruistic achievement.

click image to zoom Reuben Carranza will receive the 2013 City of Hope Spirit of Life Award on July 13, 2013 on the City of Hope Gala at Cosmprof North America. Reuben has chosen to direct funds raised during his Spirit of Life campaign toward City of Hope’s cutting-edge research in diabetes. Coming from a family ravaged by this chronic disease, Carranza has seen the impact diabetes had on his mother and his aunt, both hairdressers, as they struggled to continue to work behind the chair.

In the U.S. alone, diabetes affects one in 12 people; among both African-Americans and Latinos, the speed increases to 1 in eight. City of Hope is operating to alter that dynamic. Building on greater than four decades of groundbreaking discoveries, City of Hope’s lifesaving research and treatment advances improve the lives of folks worldwide. Numerous breakthrough treatments are in response to technology pioneered by City of Hope researchers, including synthetic human insulin, now utilized by millions of diabetics day after day.

For information regarding purchasing tickets for the July 13 event, or to make a donation, contact Kathleen P. Talbot at 213-241-7192; kptalbot@coh.org

Learn more concerning the organization and this year’s honoree. www.cityofhope.org

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