An “Achilles Heel” for Mixed-Lineage Leukemia
Maxim Pimkin, MD, PhD at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is exploring how depleting two proteins in the body could save children with an...
Targeting ‘undruggable’ leukemia proteins
Ani Deshpande, PhD at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in California is working to target previously ‘undruggable’ protei...
How COVID-19 Impacts Cancer Survivors
As so many of us now know, people with compromised or weakened immune systems are at much higher risk for COVID-19 complications. This includes...
Treating Leukemia with Microbubbles
Caroline de Gracia Lux , PhD at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Texas will use novel ultrasound technology to make acute lymphoblastic...
Targeting Pathways for Neuroblastoma
Logan (above) is fighting neuroblastoma. Approximately 700 kids in the U.S. are diagnosed with neuroblastoma each year. Read Logan's story here...
Team Nat Progress Report
Nathalia Hawley passed away in April 2019, but not before leaving an incredible and lasting mark on the world. During her fight with cancer, Na...
A Blood Test for Bone Cancer
When a child is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a body of work from the University of Minnesota scientists over the past decade suggests the child...
Dream Fund Supports 7 New Research Projects
This past April, a group of incredibly generous supporters gathered at the Armory in downtown Minneapolis to celebrate progress and invest in t...
CCRF Funds 9 New Research Projects
This September, your generosity, advocacy and awareness-building made a mighty big difference. This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CCRF awar...
A “Better Set of Goggles” for Bone Cancer Imaging
When 16-year-old Nate (above) had his 10-hour surgery to remove the bone tumor from his ribs and spine, it was critical that doctors removed th...
Less Toxic Drugs For Ewing Sarcoma
The problem: The survival rate of children whose Ewing sarcoma cancer has spread is nothing short of heart-breaking, and only 20% of children w...
Fighting Cancer With Data
Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient’s own immune system to treat their cancer, could be the next chapter in childhood cancer treatment. Unfor...
A Cure in the Making
In talking about a new project to develop new treatments for osteosarcoma, University of Minnesota researcher Beau Webber, PhD, uses a word he ...
Building the Case for Kids with Hepatoblastoma
Federal funders like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are typically more interested in funding broad health concerns such as HPV or deme...
Upcoming Clinical Trial Takes Aim at Brain Tumors
Childhood brain tumors cause the most cancer-related deaths among kids and young adults ages 0–19, recently surpassing leukemia. But, a profo...
Targeting Chemoresistant Leukemia Cells
Sometimes, leukemia cancer cells are so powerful they can overcome the most potent of chemotherapies. Because of support in part by Children's ...
Printing Tumors to Study Spreading Cancer
Dr. Angela Mortari uses a bioprinter to study spreading tumors. Photo courtesy of the University of Minnesota. In today's cancer research wor...
Hope for the Future of DIPG Treatment
In the past 40 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the world of childhood cancer research. Survival rates have risen dramaticall...