Providence Alaska awarded grant for pediatric cancer care

$50,000 grant from St. Baldrick’s Foundation provides funds to conduct research, enrollment in clinical trials

Anchorage, AK — The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-powered charity dedicated to raising money for children’s cancer research and funding the most promising research initiatives, announced it has awarded an infrastructure grant for $50,000 to Providence Alaska Medical Center.

These infrastructure grants provide resources to institutions enabling them to conduct more research and enroll more children in ongoing clinical trials.

Providence Alaska Medical Center is one of 33 institutions across the United States to receive a grant. This series of St. Baldrick’s Infrastructure Grants, totaling $2 million, combined with the more than $21.2 million awarded in July, brings the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s funding total to $23 million awarded in 2015.

Infrastructure grants are 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.

“The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is excited to fund this latest round of grants, which will give much needed support to multiple pediatric cancer treatment teams across the U.S.,” said Kathleen Ruddy, chief executive officer of St. Baldrick’s. “These grants will improve the capacity of the institutions to do more research, enroll more children in cutting-edge clinical trials, and complete studies that are in progress. These grants would not be possible without our dedicated volunteers and generous donors who believe that kids deserve better than the toxic medicines that are currently available which all too often harm developing bodies and create lifelong, life-threatening health problems.”

About Providence Alaska Medical Center
Providence Alaska Medical Center, a nationally recognized trauma center, is part of Providence Health & Services, a not-for-profit network of hospitals, care centers, health plans, physicians, clinics, home health services, affiliated services and educational facilities. For more information about PAMC, visit: alaska.providence.org.

About St. Baldrick’s Foundation
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-powered charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. Since 2005, St. Baldrick’s has awarded more than $178 million to support lifesaving research, making the Foundation the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants. For more information about the St. Baldrick’s Foundation please call 1.888.899.BALD or visit www.StBaldricks.org.

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