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The Loma Linda University Children's Hospital (LLUCH) services a four-county region (San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo and Mono Counties). For the 1.3 million children living in this region, 25% come from families that live in poverty and are uninsured. This population represents 80% of the children treated here. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure. The participation of this patient population in clinical trials is critical for the identification of therapies that can alleviate this health disparity and effectively treat all children.

Fortunately, the majority of children with cancer are cured with the standard or primary treatment of their cancer. This is largely due to improvement in outcomes over time through cooperative group studies through a national organization called Children's Oncology Group (COG). COG studies are very labor intensive and therefore require significant amounts of resources and research staff to ensure all children with cancer eligible for COG studies are able to be enrolled on these studies. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Clinical research associates are the cornerstone of clinical research who helps to open new clinical trials, maintain trials, and enroll patients. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associates at El Paso Children's hospital to facilitate clinical research in children with cancer.

This grant supports a data manager who will help ensure clinical trial data is complete, timely, and of the highest quality. This will allow the clinical research coordinators to focus on enrolling patients, ensuring more children have access to the most cutting edge treatments, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a pediatric-focused Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a survivorship program Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids are offered enrollment onto appropriate registry, late effects, and supportive care clinical trials.

This grant supports an Adolescent Young Adult (AYA) Clinical Research Coordinator to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant will support resources for the Bone and Marrow Transplantation (BMT) team at Children's National to share the importance of clinical trials, as well as cover key information pertaining to the BMT journey. This will help more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

St. Joseph's Children's Hospital serves a diverse, economically-challenged population. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure. The Clinical Research Associate will help increase patients' participation in pediatric oncology clinical trials and will help add to the knowledge base around minority patients who are often underrepresented in research.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a pediatric-focused Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a clinical research professional to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

At Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, many patients are of minority background, and historically minorities have not always had the same access to health care. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure. To run clinical trials safely and correctly, Clinical Research Associates are absolutely necessary.

This grant supports a survivorship and Adolescent Young Adult (AYA) Clinical Research Coordinator to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Developing new therapies from medicine to procedures is the best way to cure cancer and save lives. Clinical trials are research studies involving people of all ages to see if a new drug or medical device is safe and effective. One of the nation’s top children’s hospitals for cancer care, Lurie Children’s offers more pediatric clinical trials than any other hospital in the state. With more studies, their specialists have many options when treating a child with cancer. The success of a clinical trial depends on trained clinical research professionals (CRPs) to manage the study, from enrolling participants to reporting data in a timely and accurate manner. Like many healthcare professionals, CRPs are in high demand due to labor shortages and a very competitive marketplace. With more resources, we can better recruit, train and retain invaluable CRPs so we can provide every child with cancer access to innovative new therapies. This grant supports a clinical research coordinator to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

The grant is named in honor of the Do It for Dominic Fund. This Hero Fund was created in memory of Dominic Cairo, who died from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma at the age of 8. His family and friends continue to focus their efforts on raising funds and supporting St. Baldrick’s in the effort find cures for childhood cancers in the hopes that no child ever has to go through what Dominic had to endure.

New Mexico is a unique state with a largely rural, underserved, and multicultural patient population. This grant supports a clinical research professional to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure. Additionally, with increased enrollment of our unique patient population in these national and international clinical trials the University of New Mexico Pediatric Oncology Division will increase the diversity of patient representation in these trials.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Adoptive immunotherapy has demonstrated unprecedented success in the treatment of pediatric leukemia. Extending its therapeutic potential to other pediatric malignancies such as glioblastoma (GBM) has proved challenging. In this therapy, T cells are isolated from a patient, expanded outside of the body, and genetically modified prior to reinfusion. The ability of these T cells to recognize and eliminate cancer cells is improved by expressing a protein (CAR) on the T cell surface. An important challenge is to minimize the manipulation of patients' T cells outside the body. Prolonged culture compromises their efficacy. Dr. Ghassemi developed approaches to generate CAR T cells in 1 day. These cells have increased potency. She is combining this recent development with a metabolic strategy to overcome the metabolic nature of tumor environment. This synthetic advancement combined with the production of CAR T cells in 1 day will lead to superior CAR T cells for cellular immunotherapies against pediatric GBM.

This grant is funded by and named for the Be Brooks Brave Fund. Despite his diagnosis at age 5 with inoperable brain and spinal tumors, Brooks taught so many people what life is truly about--love. He was BRAVE beyond his years with an inspiring “faith over fear” attitude. This Hero Fund hopes to raise money for high-grade glioma research so no other family will hear the words, “there is no cure”.

This grant supports a pediatric-focused Clinical Research Coordinator. Through this support, Golisano Children's Hospital is able to offer the children of central New York a wide variety of childhood cancer clinical trials so that children do not need to leave the region to attain this level of care. This is especially important for smaller, more rural centers like this one.