$100,000 Awarded to Emory University to Support Promising Childhood Cancer Research

Part of $22 Million Awarded in New Grants by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation

ATLANTA (August 29, 2016) – The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-powered and donor-centered charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, is proud to award a $100,000 research grant to support the work of Muxiang Zhou, M.D., a researcher at Emory University.

In a previous study, Dr. Zhou discovered that the interaction between two important cancer-related proteins, MDM4 and TOP2A, is responsible for cancer growth and resistance to treatment. With the funding from St. Baldrick’s, his team will develop new drugs to target the proteins with hopes of treating childhood cancers by inhibiting cancer development and killing resistant cancer cells.

“I am extremely grateful for the support of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation,” says Dr. Zhou. “This support will allow me to further advance my research, which I hope will provide an effective new therapy for children with leukemia and neuroblastoma.”

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About St. Baldrick’s Foundation
As the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, the St. Baldrick’s Foundation believes that kids are special and deserve to be treated that way. St. Baldrick’s funds are granted to some of the most brilliant childhood cancer research experts who are working to find cures and better treatments for all childhood cancers. Kids need treatments as unique as they are – and that starts with funding research just for them. Join us at StBaldricks.org to help support the best cancer treatments for kids.

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