$50,000 Awarded to Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters to Support Groundwork for Childhood Cancer Research

Norfolk, Va. (January 30, 2017) – Childhood cancer patients depend on clinical trials to find new treatment options when most available treatment options don’t work. Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters will receive an infrastructure grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to provide their patients with the most promising new treatment options.

Funding from St. Baldrick’s, totaling $50,000, will support clinical research personnel to ensure that more kids can be treated through clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Infrastructure grants are awarded based on the need of the institution and its patients, anticipated results of the grant and local participation in St. Baldrick’s fundraising events and activities.

“I am so excited that we were able to beat our goal of raising $150,000 in 2016, and help support our local children’s hospital” said Sarah Rostock, local St. Baldrick’s volunteer event
co-organizer, and former CHKD patient. “The infrastructure grant provided by St. Baldrick’s is critical to providing the children in our local community, like me, important access to
clinical trials.”

This series of grants, combined with the more than $22 million awarded in July, brings the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s funding total to $24.1 million awarded in 2016.

To learn how you can get involved visit www.stbaldricks.org, and connect with St. Baldrick’s on social media via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Vimeo.

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.

###