Local Doctor and Childhood Cancer Survivor Receives $50,000 Grant to Support Survivorship Clinic

STONY BROOK, N.Y. (December 17, 2014) – The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-driven and donor-centered charity dedicated to raising money for children’s cancer research, is proud to award a one-year, $50,000 grant to support the Pediatric Oncology Survivorship Clinic at Stony Brook University. This grant is one of 40 infrastructure grants awarded as part of the Foundation’s recent grant cycle, totaling more than $2.5 million and surpassing last year’s total awarded during this same period.

This grant will help to provide necessary resources to support the Survivorship Clinic, and to study, through increased clinical trial enrollment, the late effects of recently treated children.

“Children are at increased risk for medical, psychological and social problems after treatment for cancer,” said Laura Hogan, M.D., assistant professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Stony Brook University. “Our clinic has a multidisciplinary team that focuses on all these issues in the patients, and their families, in an effort to improve the quality of their lives.”

Dr. Hogan is a cancer survivor herself and knows first-hand what kids with cancer go through during their fight and how important follow up care is for these patients. She has dedicated her career to the unique needs of cancer survivors.

This series of grants, combined with the more than $24.7 million awarded in July to fund cutting-edge research, brings the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s funding total to more than $27.2 million awarded in 2014. 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 fundraising events and activities.

“These grants are critically important to saving children’s lives, and would not be possible without our dedicated volunteers and generous donors who believe kids deserve better than medicine is currently able to provide,” said Kathleen Ruddy, chief executive officer for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

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About St. Baldrick’s Foundation
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. St. Baldrick’s coordinates its signature head-shaving events worldwide where participants collect pledges to shave their heads in solidarity with kids with cancer, raising money to fund research. Since 2005, St. Baldrick’s has awarded more than $154 million to support lifesaving research, making the Foundation the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants. St. Baldrick’s funds are granted to some of the most brilliant childhood cancer research experts in the world and to younger professionals who will be the experts of tomorrow. Funds awarded also enable hundreds of local institutions to participate in national pediatric cancer clinical trials, and the new International Scholar grants train researchers to work in developing countries. For more information about the St. Baldrick’s Foundation please call 1.888.899.BALD or visit www.StBaldricks.org.

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