Tackling toxic elements to target terrible diseases
Tiny scraps of paper from newborn screening tests, each with a dried blood spot smaller than a dime, could unlock insights into how to...
Targeting the MN1 protein in hard-to-treat cancers
As a medical student, Kathrin Bernt, MD, initially thought she was going to be a surgeon. “I loved the idea that you have a patient who is re...
Liliana’s Story – Lily Strong
Liliana (or Lily to her friends and family) was just 3 years old when she was diagnosed with leukemia, which crept in slowly – first it...
Osteosarcoma update: beating an ancient disease at its source
Osteosarcoma, a deadly bone cancer, was first found in a shell-less turtle from the Triassic period. For the last 240 million years, the diseas...
Fewer side-effects and no relapse – A leukemia researcher’s goal
Today, when a child is diagnosed with leukemia, they’re told they are in for a long battle. Those years will include toxic treatments that ca...
CCRF Honors the 2020 Butterfly Award Winners
Each year, Children’s Cancer Research Fund presents Butterfly Awards to individuals, organizations and teams that have contributed significan...
How you can honor Zach Sobiech’s legacy on his birthday
Zach Sobiech would have turned 27 this year – his birthday is on May 3. Before Zach passed away from osteosarcoma in 2013, he started the...
Azaelea’s Story – Counting Each Day
In recent weeks, 13-year-old Azaelea’s life has been dictated by a collection of numbers. 49 days – that’s how long Azaelea and her mom, ...
Data’s not the flashiest, but it’s the key to childhood cancer
Troves of data around the globe could get us closer to answering the overarching questions: why do kids get cancer, and how can we treat each c...
CCRF announces $10.5 million in new grants
Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF) is proud to award $10.5 million in its latest round of funding. The new grants support 12 research...
How a small team of livestreamers raised over $12,000 for childhood cancer research
Eleven livestreamers teamed up and raised $12,399 in just five days for their World Cancer Day campaign. We talked to three of these livestream...
Why childhood cancers are considered “too rare” to get research funding
Each day, 43 children are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. That adds up to nearly 16,000 per year. So why is nearly every...
Celebrating Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
Alisa describes her niece, Malia, as a “firecracker” who loved her friends and family fiercely, and continued playing soccer even during ch...
Curiously acting cells inspire new treatments for retinoblastoma
They say the best things that happen are unexpected. In Timothy Hallstrom’s lab, some retinoblastoma cells and immune cells acted so curiousl...
Painting the Picture of Germ Cell Tumors in Kids
Over the last 9 years, Jenny Poynter, PhD, assembled the largest collection of genetic samples of pediatric germ cell tumors available in the...
Zach’s Movement and Clouds Choir Help Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund Top $2.3 million
In August 2020, Children’s Cancer Research Fund started Zach’s Movement, a campaign to coincide with the release of “Clouds,” an original...
Our top 5 childhood cancer research wins of 2020
Following the outbreak of COVID-19, Beau Webber, PhD, an expert in genetic engineering and stem cell research, had to essentially shut down...
Researchers use “biological scissors” to cut off paths for osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma, a deadly bone cancer, has many lethal talents: it can shuffle around its genome to evade therapies, confuse the immune system,...