St. Baldrick’s Research Grants are one-year awards for pediatric cancer researchers to conduct hypothesis-driven research to find new cures or improve treatments for childhood cancers. This research may be laboratory or clinical in nature. Some research grants focus on a single disease type, and others are designed to help children and teens with all types of childhood cancers. This year 14 St. Baldrick’s Research Grants were funded, totaling more than $1.3 million.
St. Baldrick’s Research Grants were awarded at the following institutions:
- Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, Calif.
- University of California, Davis, Sacramento, Calif.
- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif.
- Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Ill.
- University of Illinois – Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
- University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minn.
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, N.J.
- New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, N.Y.
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.
Research does greatly impact kids with cancer. Take a look at the Childhood Cancer Research Outcomes made possible by previous St. Baldrick’s funding or head back to explore more of the new 2012 Summer Grants.
*All funding applications are peer-reviewed by leading pediatric cancer researchers who volunteer their time and expertise and make funding recommendations to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s board of directors.
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