Sonia Su vividly remembers the day she found a care kit on her hospital bed.
It was 2019, and the then-25-year-old Su (COM’15) was on her third round of treatment for an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She’d been diagnosed the year before and gone through two rounds of chemotherapy. When she was admitted to the University of Maryland hospital for an intensive new treatment called CAR T-cell therapy, Su was nauseous, exhausted, and so weak that her mom had to help her walk through the hospital. So, when she saw a care kit—donated by a former patient for someone like Su—sitting on the bed in her room, it was “like the sun had just come out,” she says.