From BMT donor to recipient: The impact of health inequities
Our life experiences can affect our bodies on the stem cell level — even when our cells are implanted in an entirely different human. That’s...
Empowering cancer families through survivorship education
With support from CCRF, Dr. Katie Greenzang is developing an eHealth intervention to improve families’ preparation for the survivorship stage...
Re-engaging cancer survivors in follow-up care
With support from CCRF, Dr. Lisa A. Schwartz is leading a pilot study to explore why adolescent % and young adult survivors may be disengaged...
CCRF introduces new research grant focused on cancer survivorship
Children’s Cancer Research Fund has introduced a new grant, the Healthy After Cancer: Childhood Cancer Survivorship Research Award, which fun...
Flipping the “switch” that powers aggressive MLL-r leukemia
Linda Resar, MD, will never forget Amanda, the first leukemia patient she cared for during her oncology fellowship. The inspirational 8-year-ol...
Conquering treatment-resistant B-ALL
During high school, Loretta Li worked in the University of Chicago lab of Janet Rowley, who later won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her...
Delving into the data in search of new cures
With more than 10,000 experts at 200-plus institutions around the world, the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) is a research powerhouse. The co...
2021 Hard-to-Treat Award Winners
The Hard-To-Tread Award is a grant intended to support projects that enable the prevention, early detection and effective treatment of pediatri...
Exploring safe, cost-effective alternatives to donor-supplied blood
Cancer and the therapies used to treat it can alter the delicate blend of a child’s blood proteins. As a result, children with cancer often...
Catching infant neuroblastoma earlier for better outcomes
Even before a baby is born, neuroblastoma can start to quietly creep through their nerve cells, growing into a tumor that might go undetected f...
Helping the immune system fight brain cancer
Even as a college student volunteering in the cancer ward of his local children’s hospital, Robert Galvin, MD, knew he wanted to become a ped...
Our top 5 research wins of 2021
It’s up to you to make a difference for kids fighting cancer - and in 2021, you delivered. Because of you we funded 40 new research...
Using artificial intelligence to optimize childhood brain tumor treatment
Brain tumors recently rose to be the most common cause of cancer-related death in kids. Those that survive can develop serious negative...
Improving communication and trust between cancer families and care teams
Communication breakdowns between patients, parents, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals could result in unnecessary stress and...
Dream Further Campaign hits $2 million for cancer survivorship research and care
When childhood cancer survivor Ted Sibley finished his cancer treatment as a teenager, he received a t-shirt that said, “Finish Line.” He was...
Does body composition impact the severity of chemo side-effects in children?
The research questions started to percolate for pediatric oncologist Aman Wadhwa, MD, MSPH, as he made his rounds of the pediatric oncology uni...
CCRF-funded researcher is outsmarting the defenses of AML cancer cells
Shannon Conneely, MD, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, envision...
Discovering the cell origin of Ewing sarcoma
For decades, the question of Ewing sarcoma’s genetic beginnings has stumped scientists, leaving potential therapeutic targets...