Event Title: 🔥 Heat, Heroes & Healing đź§
Date & Time: Saturday, March 14th | 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Dave’s Hot Chicken | 7729 Paseo del Norte, El Paso, TX 79912
Hosts: MitoGenix Therapeutics LLC & CFC Foundation
About This Event:
Come for the heat, stay for the healing! 🔥 Join us for an incredible evening of amazing food, fierce challenges, and community connection—all while supporting groundbreaking Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) research for our veterans right here in El Paso.
Whether you’re stepping up to the Reaper Challenge, hoping to score tickets to CFC 6, or just want to grab some delicious hot chicken for a great cause, your participation makes a real difference. Here’s why we are coming together:
🧬 Advancing Precision Medicine with MitoGenix Therapeutics LLC:
At MitoGenix, we are urgently advancing precision medicine to solve a critical diagnostic gap in treating Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)—particularly for our military veterans and the "walking wounded" whose life-threatening injuries often go undetected by standard subjective tests. We are developing a revolutionary multi-modal AI platform that correlates facial biomarkers (computer vision) with mitochondrial genomics to create a rapid, data-driven triage tool. By accurately identifying patients at high risk for acute neurodegeneration in the field, we can drastically speed up the path to therapies that transfer healthy, genetically modified mitochondria into diseased cells, effectively reprogramming them back to health.
🥊 Building Champions Beyond the Ring with CFC Foundation:
We are proud to partner with the CFC Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping youth build confidence, discipline, and resilience through structure, guidance, and physical training. The foundation addresses bullying at its root by teaching self-defense, accountability, and leadership—not fear. Their mission is simple but profound: help kids become strong enough to stand up for themselves and others.
💥 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE EVENT:
• 🎟️ Early Bird Bonus: First 10 people that purchase more than $25 at Dave’s Hot Chicken during the event get a FREE General Admissions ticket to CFC 6: Proving Grounds!
• 🌶️ Reaper Challenges: Think you can handle the heat? Grab 4 friends for our 5-person Reaper Tender Challenge ($20 entry fee). We will have a challenge every 30 minutes, last at 7:30PM. The last one standing wins a premium FLOOR TICKET to CFC 6: Proving Grounds.
• 🎙️ Live Podcast Recording: Sit in on a live recording of The Behind Our Science Podcast! We will be filming the miniseries "The Biological Cost of Trauma" right at Dave’s. Hear from NAMI-El Paso Director Isidro Torres, CFC Foundation CEO Marco Vallejos Jr., and a Military Veteran Representative.
• 🏆 The $5K Stretch Goal Raffle: If we reach our $5,000 fundraising goal during the event, everyone who participated and donated will be entered into a massive raffle to win a FULL VIP TABLE to CFC 6: Proving Grounds!
Bring your family, challenge your friends, and help us fund the future of trauma healing and youth empowerment in El Paso. See you there!
(Disclosure: 20% of all proceeds from sales on Saturday, March 14th from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM from Dave’s Hot Chicken Westside location will be donated directly and uniquely to the CFC Foundation for upcoming clinical studies for TBI in the region.)
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