Research Updates

Helping Young Adults Make Decisions about Life and Death

From using a child’s own cells to fight cancer to creating next generation leukemia therapies, you’re helping turn researcher’s ideas int...

“I begged for Megan to come in every day,” Alex told us, with his sister Kirsten and mother Nancy nearby. While most of his friends are hea...

The answers to a deadly childhood bone cancer could be locked in a database holding 1,600 iPhones’ worth of data. And thanks to a gift from a...

From using a child’s own cells to fight cancer to creating next generation leukemia therapies, you’re helping turn researcher’s ideas int...

Children’s Cancer Research Fund, in partnership with Momcology, a national peer support foundation for pediatric cancer families, has awarded...

Moertel’s immediate interest is a new class of drugs that target very specific “signaling” proteins inside cells to restore quality of life...

Your donations support Logan Spector, PhD, who is currently a co-investigator on a National Institutes of Health grant called Genetic Risk Fact...

“Sarcoma is a tragic disease,” says Michael Verneris, MD, professor, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota. “It i...

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS With world-class expertise and a proven track record of success, the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center is advan...

Branden Moriarity, PhD, uses mouse models to identify cancer genes that cause osteosarcoma, a rare pediatric bone cancer, that primarily affect...

Among all childhood cancers, leukemia in infancy is rare and challenging for researchers and doctors tasked with understanding causes and findi...