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Based on progress to date, Dr. Reitman was awarded a new grant in 2022 to fund an additional year of this Fellow award. Brainstem gliomas are deadly brain tumors that affect children. The only effective treatment is radiation therapy, but despite this treatment all children with this disease eventually experience growth of the tumor and eventually death. As the Emily Beazley's Kures for Kids Fund St. Baldrick's Fellow, Dr. Reitman will test if treatments that enhance the efficacy of radiation therapy can improve survival in the laboratory. This could lead to new clinical trials aimed at helping children with brainstem gliomas to survive longer.

This grant is funded by and named for Emily Beazley's Kures for Kids Fund. At the age of 8, Emily was diagnosed with Stage III T-cell lymphoblastic non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and battled through three relapses. Her family prayed for a miracle but discovered Emily herself was the miracle, inspiring a community to come together to show love and change lives. She had a dream of starting a foundation to fund research and named it “Kures for Kids”. Today, Emily's family and friends carry on her dream and her mission in her memory.