More than $21 million granted in 2011

Donors and volunteers at the the St. Baldrick’s Foundation have made it possible to award $1.8 million in infrastructure grants this fall. The Foundation’s infrastructure grants provide institutions with resources to enable them to conduct more research and enroll more kids in ongoing clinical trials – their best hope for a cure. The fall grants, combined with the more than $19.6 million awarded in June to fund cutting-edge research, bring the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s funding total to more than $21 million awarded in 2011.

Worldwide, more than 160,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year and it remains the leading cause of death by disease among children in the United States. With only 4 percent of all federal cancer research funding dedicated to pediatric cancer research, and more than 70 percent of children receiving treatment through clinical trials, St. Baldrick’s Foundation infrastructure grants are critical to finding cures for all childhood cancers.

“We are excited to make these grants to enable childhood cancer researchers to offer better treatment options to their patients,” said Becky Weaver, chief philanthropy officer for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. “St. Baldrick’s volunteers and donors are making more research possible, which results in more lives saved.” 

Grants were awarded based on the need of the institution and its patients, anticipated results of the grant and local participation in St. Baldrick’s events.

St. Baldrick’s infrastructure grants were distributed to the following institutions:

• Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, Ariz.


• Jonathan Jacques Children’s Cancer Center, Miller Children’s Hospital, Long Beach, Calif.


• Children’s Hospital Central California, Madera, Calif.


• Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland, Oakland, Calif.


• University of California, San Francisco, Calif.


• The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colo.


• University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Fla.


• University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill.


• Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La.


• Alliance for Childhood Diseases, Las Vegas, Nev.


• Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, N.J.


• University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, N.M.


• Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y.


• Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, N.Y.


• SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y.


• Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.


• Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, N.C.


• The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio


• Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore.


• Lehigh Valley Health Network, Bethlehem, Pa.


• University of South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia, S.C.


• East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Knoxville, Tenn.


• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas


• Vannie E. Cook Jr. Children’s Cancer Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, McAllen, Texas


• University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas


• Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Norfolk, Va.


• University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.


• Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.


• American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology


• SIOP – International Society of Paediatric Oncology