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T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive cancer that requires treatment with highly intensive chemotherapy. The prognosis of patients with relapsed and refractory (treatment resistant) T-ALL is very poor. Dr. Ferrando and his team have identified that specific mutations in the NT5C2 gene lead to chemotherapy resistance in 20% of relapse T-ALL cases. The goal of this research is to generate a model of chemotherapy resistance driven by mutant NT5C2 genes and utilize this model to develop new tailored therapies for the treatment of relapsed T-ALL.      

Human synovial sarcoma is uniformly driven by a precise genetic lesion (change to our heritable material, or DNA), which converts a normal protein into one that functions abnormally and promotes cancer development. This research aims to identify molecules which prevent this conversion and halt synovial sarcoma growth.

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is an aggressive childhood cancer that often arises in muscle. It contains a DNA error which drives cells to divide when they shouldn't, resulting in cancer. Dr. Linardic has discovered one targetable protein that is controlled by this DNA error. Her work aims to understand how this protein and the DNA error associated with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma are related, and whether the protein she discovered will be a useful drug target.

Many currently used chemotherapeutic drugs have severe toxic side effects and a significant number of cancer patients do not respond well to chemotherapy. Thus, developing more effective and less harmful new anticancer drugs remains significant and challenging. Dr. Zhou's team has discovered several small molecule chemical compounds that are stronger to kill cancer cells, and less toxic to normal cells than currently used chemotherapeutic drugs. Dr. Zhou is studying the mechanism by which these compounds kill cancer but not normal human cells, and how to develop these compounds as effective and safe therapeutic drugs for treating refractory cancer patients.

Neuroblastoma is a common childhood cancer. Cancers happen because of mutations (mistakes) in the genetic code within them, and knowing which specific mutation happened in each particular cancer should help doctors improve their treatments. Dr. Hogarty's team discovered that some neuroblastomas have mutations in a specific gene, ARID1, and that these tumors are especially difficult to cure. Dr. Hogarty is studying this gene more since it determines how nerve cells behave, and neuroblastoma arises from mutated nerve cells. This may give us insight into new ways to treat neuroblastoma.

Recurrence of childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is all too frequent after initially successful treatment. The underlying drug resistance is partly related to the protective role of the bone marrow microenvironment, where leukemia cells grow. Dr. Kurre's team has recently discovered that AML cells release small amounts of material in the bone marrow microenvironment that cause changes to promote leukemia progression. Dr. Kurre is working to better understand these changes and how these changes can reprogram the leukemia bone marrow to protect residual AML cells and lead to relapse.

Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. These tumors are caused by or associated with two proteins which cannot be directly attacked with drugs. However, these proteins rely on other proteins involved in the translation (the process of making more proteins) to cause cancer. Currently researchers can alter translation with drugs in clinical trials for adult cancers. Dr. Weiss's team is trying to determine how these two proteins rely on these translational proteins in medulloblastoma, and how to modulate them with currently available drugs, to halt tumor growth and destroy tumor cells.

NUT midline carcinoma is a deadly cancer of children and adolescents. This cancer is caused by a cancer gene called BRD4-NUT, but it cannot work without the help of other cancer genes. BRD4-NUT itself cannot be targeted very effectively with known cancer drugs. Dr. French is working to identify the cancer genes that are helping BRD4-NUT so that we can effectively treat NUT midline carcinoma with drugs that interfere with these cancer genes.    

This team has identified a subset of childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) with specific genetic abnormalities in the leukemia cells (Ph-like ALL) that has poor survival. Some Ph-like ALL patients have genetic abnormalities that make their leukemia cells sensitive to a targeted therapy (dasatinib), which has many fewer side effects than chemotherapy. This consortium is using a COG clinical trial to help identify which children should respond to dasatinib, and then will add this targeted therapy to their chemotherapy to try to improve survival. Awarded at the University of Colorado and transferred to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Funds administered by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: COG Targeted Therapy for ALL Consortium. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: COG Targeted Therapy for ALL Consortium. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: COG Targeted Therapy for ALL Consortium. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: COG Targeted Therapy for ALL Consortium. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's:COG Targeted Therapy for ALL Consortium. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: Preventing Heart Injury During Cancer Treatment. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

Children with cancer can often be successfully treated with chemotherapy drugs that can unfortunately damage the heart in the process. Development of an effective method to prevent this type of injury while curing the cancer is very important. This consortium's goal is to give children successfully cured of cancer the greatest chance of having a completely healthy life afterwards, free of treatment-related side effects. The study is to determine whether a drug called dexrazoxane, which appears to be safe and effective in adults in preventing chemotherapy-related heart injury, can be similarly safe and effective when used in children. Funds administered by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: Preventing Heart Injury During Cancer Treatment. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: Preventing Heart Injury During Cancer Treatment. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: Preventing Heart Injury During Cancer Treatment. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

This institution is a member of a research consortium which is being funded by St. Baldrick's: Preventing Heart Injury During Cancer Treatment. For a description of this project, see the consortium grant made to the lead institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.