Katherine Elizabeth Mueller

Honoring the loving memory of

Katherine Elizabeth Mueller

1990 – 2021

Severna Park, Maryland

The Katherine Mueller Fund for NET Research 

Investing in research to find a cure for neuroendocrine cancer

“This is EXACTLY what Katherine wanted us to do.” ~ Mueller/Sells Family

Katherine Mueller lived valiantly and courageously with NETs for more than three years. Never one to sit idly by, Katherine, while enduring surgeries and countless treatments for her cancer, mobilized her friends and family to raise money for NET research.

After raising more than $128,000, Katherine and her family established the Katherine Mueller Fund for NET Research, which funded a NETRF research grant awarded to Dr. Peter Clark at UCLA to study pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs), the same neuroendocrine cancer that Katherine had.

Following Katherine’s passing in 2021, her family founded the Katherine’s Light Foundation to honor Katherine’s wish to continue to fund NET research to build brighter futures for patients living with NETs.

At the beginning of 2024, Katherine’s family set a new $200,000 fundraising goal to fund a second research project in her memory. Thanks to the support and generosity of Katherine’s family and friends, the Katherine’s Light Foundation surpassed their $200,000 lifetime giving goal. They presented their donation to Suzanne Ludlow, a member of the NETRF Board of Directors, at the Severna Park Taphouse in Maryland. The award, named in Katherine’s memory, will be unveiled in January 2025.

It was Katherine’s wish to advance research as much as possible and as quickly as possible. That’s why the Katherine’s Light Foundation has a new lifetime giving goal of $250,000 for 2025. Please help the Katherine’s Light Foundation and NETRF ensure a world free of neuroendocrine cancer by making a gift below.

To donate in memory of Katherine

All donations to Katherine’s Tribute Fund are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Or make checks payable to NETRF (please note the Katherine Mueller Research Fund in memo) and mail to:  

NET Research Foundation
31 St. James Avenue, Suite 365
Boston, MA 02116

For questions about making a gift to Katherine’s Fund, please contact Development Coordinator, Laken Baird at laken.baird@netrf.org or call us at 617-946-1780.

Katherine’s NETRF journey was detailed in previous stories below:
https://netrf.org/2021/01/26/the-mueller-sells-family-set-the-bar-for-family-fundraisers-at-netrf/

https://netrf.org/2019/09/13/fight-net-cancer-with-katherine

NETRF Researcher Peter Clark’s Hello to Katherine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODRQ8DFwiJQ