2016 Research Highlights: What Donors Made Possible
From using a child’s own cells to fight cancer to creating next generation leukemia therapies, you’re helping turn researcher’s ideas int...
New Grants Provide Support for Childhood Cancer Clinical Trials
Children’s Cancer Research Fund, in partnership with Momcology, a national peer support foundation for pediatric cancer families, has awarded...
A New Era for Children with Neurofibromatosis
Moertel’s immediate interest is a new class of drugs that target very specific “signaling” proteins inside cells to restore quality of life...
Turning 1,600 iPhones of Data into Targeted Treatments
Your donations support Logan Spector, PhD, who is currently a co-investigator on a National Institutes of Health grant called Genetic Risk Fact...
Research in Sarcomas Gets Help from Man’s Best Friend
“Sarcoma is a tragic disease,” says Michael Verneris, MD, professor, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota. “It i...
2015 Research Highlights: What Donors Made Possible
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS With world-class expertise and a proven track record of success, the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center is advan...
Researchers Discover Genes that Cause Deadly Osteosarcoma
Branden Moriarity, PhD, uses mouse models to identify cancer genes that cause osteosarcoma, a rare pediatric bone cancer, that primarily affect...
Infant leukemia: A team approach
Among all childhood cancers, leukemia in infancy is rare and challenging for researchers and doctors tasked with understanding causes and findi...