Research Updates
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Big Ideas. Limited Funding. What Happens Next Matters. 

What researchers are telling us right now.
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Where Research Meets Real Life for Childhood Cancer Survivors 

What gets survivors moving – and why it matters
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Building the Future for Kids Facing AML  

How Ella’s story is helping accelerate lifesaving childhood AML research.
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The Future of Childhood Cancer Care: CCRF Fellowship Program 

Preparing next-generation of pediatric oncologists through lab work, skill-based training and mentorship.
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Where Lab Meets Legacy  

This brain tumor clinical trial represents decades of research made possible by CCRF donors.
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From Generosity to Discovery: 5 Latest Research Projects  

Five ways your support is fueling childhood cancer research.
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Hunting the “Spotted Zebra” that is Ewing sarcoma 

Ewing sarcoma is dubbed “a spotted zebra” for being rare and unpredictable. Kids like Griffin and researchers from the University
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So Much Potential. Not Enough Funding. 

More researchers than ever are turning to Children’s Cancer Research Fund for help.
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From Lab to Lifeline: Zach’s Movement Builds Momentum in Osteosarcoma Advances  

12 years of progress and a look to the future – the Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund at CCRF has raised
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Creating safer, more effective options for children with AML

Two CCRF-funded projects aim to create safer, more effective options for children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare and
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Research in Bloom: A Season of Survivorship 

Children’s Cancer Research Fund invests in projects that look beyond kids simply surviving cancer – to futures of long-term health,
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Breaking Barriers: The Latest in Brain Cancer Research 

Every time you give to Children’s Cancer Research Fund, children with cancer get one step closer to a cure –
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The power of seed funding: CCRF-funded leukemia screening project lands NIH grant

Erin Marcotte, PhD, MPH, and Heather Nelson, PhD, MPH, of University of Minnesota are seizing the opportunity to turn small
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Divide and conquer – a new way to study osteosarcoma

Using The Fight Osteosarcoma Together (FOT) Super Grant, funded in part by the Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund, Dr. Grohar will
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Six funding partners unite to defeat this formidable childhood cancer

If we want to defeat osteosarcoma, a formidable bone cancer, we must put a powerful force behind research. That’s why
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Developing a new way to stop the most aggressive leukemia

With support from an Accelerating Impact for Hard-to-Treat Cancer Award from Children’s Cancer Research Fund (CCRF), University of Virginia researcher
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How one boy’s cells could power new treatments for ETMR

As young Jonah fought embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes (ETMR), a very rare and aggressive pediatric brain tumor, he returned
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DNA test could predict future brain tumor relapses in kids

Drs. Erin Crotty and Margot Lazow were motivated by their young, resilient patients to spend their careers studying some of