EVENTS
An annual live-streamed video game marathon organized by Games Done Quick to raise funds for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2026 begins January 4!
Make sure you’re following the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Instagram page for content and coverage from the event.
Hundreds of all-star gamers from around the world meet to speedrun—play as fast as possible—their favorite games. People around the globe tune in online to watch the “best of the best” take on the most popular games.
With your help, we raised more than $2.5 million at AGDQ 2025!
Check out some of the highlights from the 2025 event.
Because of you, we can dare to imagine a world where cancer is preventable, detectable and beatable for all.
Project: Detection of Molecular Biomarkers for Oral Cancer Prevention
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Instructor in Clinical Investigation
Institution: Rockefeller University, The Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, New York, N.Y.
Project: Using Technology to Improve Prostate Cancer Screening Information Quality
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Professor
Institution: Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, N.Y.
Project: Inpainting for Early Detection of Brain Tumors on MRI
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Attending
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
Project: Development of a ChatBot for Patients Receiving Genetic Testing Results
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
Project: Early Detection of Renal Cancer by a Novel Imaging Platform
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
Project: Dietary Fatty Acid Modulation for the Prevention of Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Genetics
Institution: The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
Project: We Got Us: Promoting Cancer Family History Sharing Among Black Americans
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Project: Promoting Vaccine Acceptance in Immigrant Youths and Adults
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
Project: Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer via Biomarker Discovery in Uterine Lavage
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Associate Professor of Medicine;
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive, Biology
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
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