This is it! You — St. Baldrick’s donors and participants — have poured your passion into funding childhood cancer research, even in difficult times like these. And because of you, today we all celebrate the biggest batch of new grants of the year.
This new investment of $12.9 million brings the total granted by St. Baldrick’s for research since 2005 to more than $300 million.
The 53 grants include new funding for 18 Research Grants, 5 Supportive Care Research Grants, 9 St. Baldrick’s Scholars, and 1 International Scholar from India. Also receiving new funding for projects already underway are 7 St. Baldrick’s Scholars, 2 International Scholar from Kenya, 8 team science projects (Consortium grants), 1 St. Baldrick’s Innovation Award and 1 Strategic Initiative.
A few examples of the grants you’re supporting:
- The Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC), a strategic initiative led by Dr. Samuel Volchenboum of the University of Chicago, is enabling researchers from around the world to collect, store, analyze, share and compare data sets of many kinds. This makes it possible for researchers to move faster toward cures for pediatric cancers.
- Researchers know that inherited genetic abnormalities contribute to cause cancer in many more children than previously understood. These syndromes are rare and difficult for any single research institution to study, so a group of seven institutions formed the Consortium for Cancer Predisposition, led by Emory University. This year’s grant allows the team to continue working to prevent or detect cancer at early stages to improve survival for these children, and to better understand the mechanisms of cancer development for all pediatric tumors.
- New St. Baldrick’s Scholar, Dr. Lan Hoang-Minh of the University of Florida, is exploring powerful new methods to make immune cell therapy safer and more effective for pediatric brain tumor patients. She will also follow the fate of these therapeutic T cells using a new, non-invasive imaging technology called magnetic particle imaging. These studies aim to improve treatments and extend or save the lives of children with very aggressive brain cancers.
The Full List of Institutions Receiving July 2020 Grants:
- Alabama
- Children’s of Alabama and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala.
- Supportive Care Research Grant: Donna Murdaugh Ph.D.
- Children’s of Alabama and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala.
- California
- Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, Calif.
- International Scholar: David Mulama Ph.D.
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Research Grant: David Cobrinik M.D., Ph.D.
- Consortium Research Grants
- Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Melissa Mavers M.D., Ph.D.
- University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, Calif.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Lukas Chavez Ph.D.
- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Benjamin Huang M.D.
- Research Grant: Alejandro Sweet-Cordero M.D.
- Research Grant: William Weiss M.D., Ph.D.
- University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif.
- Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, Calif.
- Colorado
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Adam Green M.D.
- Research Grant: Paul Jedlicka M.D., Ph.D.
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo.
- Connecticut
- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Prasanna Ananth M.D.
- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
- Florida
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Coral Gables, Fla.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Luisa Cimmino Ph.D.
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Lan Hoang-Minh Ph.D.
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Coral Gables, Fla.
- Georgia
- Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga.
- Consortium Research Grants
- Research Grant: Erik Dreaden Ph.D.
- Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga.
- Illinois
- Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
- Research Grant: Charles James Ph.D.
- Research Grant: Rintaro Hashizume M.D., Ph.D
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
- Consortium Research Grants
- Research Grant: Samuel Volchenboum M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
- Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
- Maryland
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Brian Ladle M.D., Ph.D.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Challice Bonifant M.D., Ph.D.
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
- Massachusetts
- Dana -Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Ming-Ru Wu M.D., Ph.D.
- Consortium Research Grants
- Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, Mass.
- Research Grant: Grant Rowe M.D., Ph.D.
- Dana -Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.
- Missouri
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Mo.
- Research Grant: Paul Kulesa Ph.D.
- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo.
- Research Grant: Joshua Rubin M.D.,Ph.D.
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Mo.
- New York
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
- Supportive Care Research Grant: Dara Steinberg Ph.D.
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, N.Y.
- Research Grant: David Dominguez-Sola M.D., Ph.D.
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
- Research Grant: Iannis Aifantis Ph.D.
- St. John’s University, Jamaica, N.Y.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Saurabh Agarwal Ph.D
- University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y.
- Research Grant: James Palis M.D.
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
- Ohio
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
- Research Grant: Alex Huang M.D., Ph.D.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Reshmi Parameswaran Ph.D
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Research Grant: Payal Jain Ph.D.
- Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pa.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Chandrika Gowda M.D.
- Thomas Jefferson University and the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center — Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Research Grant: Christine Eischen Ph.D.
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Tennessee
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
- Research Grant: Scott Hiebert Ph.D.
- Texas
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Kelsey Bertrand M.B.B.S.
- Research Grant: Robin Parihar M.D., Ph.D.
- St. Baldrick’s Foundation Innovation Award: William Parsons M.D.
- Consortium Research Grants
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Stacey Crane Ph.D.
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Utah
- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Supportive Care Research Grant: Lauri Linder Ph.D.
- Research Grant: Xiaoyang Zhang Ph.D.
- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Washington
- Seattle Children’s, Seattle, Wash.
- St. Baldrick’s Scholar: Katherine Tarlock M.D.
- Supportive Care Research Grant: Mallory Taylor M.D.
- Seattle Children’s, Seattle, Wash.
- Washington, D.C.
- Children’s National Hospital and Children’s National Research Institute (CNRI), Washington, D.C.
- Supportive Care Research Grant: Kristina Hardy Ph.D.,
- Children’s National Hospital and Children’s National Research Institute (CNRI), Washington, D.C.
- Canada
- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- International Scholar: Anirban Das D.M., M.D.
- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The next set of grants will be announced in November, supported by donations between now and October. Visit the St. Baldrick’s grants page to learn more about all the research you’re making possible.
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