Alanna Joyce Church has received the The American Association for Cancer Research-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant, a one-year, $75,000 award recognizing junior-level faculty members who have demonstrated promise for continued substantive contributions to pediatric cancer research.
About 12 children with cancer or other blood disorders have been evacuated, with their companions, from the Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestinian territory to Egypt and Jordan so they may continue their treatment safely. Additional children are expected to be evacuated for cancer treatment as part of this initiative.
Anthony Faber, a professor in the Philips Institute for Oral Health Research at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry and Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received four grants totaling more than $6.3 million to aid in the development of new targeted therapies for neuroblastoma and synovial sarcoma.Â
Paula Aristizabal, a pediatric oncologist at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and associate professor of pediatrics in pediatric hematology/oncology at the University of California San Diego and Moores Cancer Center, received a $4 million R01 research grant to expand a pilot program aimed at improving diverse participation in pediatric cancer clinical trials.
Purdue University renamed its pediatric cancer research center the Tyler Trent Pediatric Cancer Research Center within the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research.Â
Study data from MAIA Biotechnology, Inc. showed that THIO (6-thio-dG or 6-thio-2’-deoxyguanosine), a first-in-class investigational telomere-targeting agent, demonstrates potent anticancer activity in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, one of the most aggressive tumors affecting the central nervous system in children.
FDA has approved Bosulif (bosutinib) for pediatric patients ages one year and older with chronic phase (CP) Ph+ chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) that is newly diagnosed or resistant or intolerant (R/I) to prior therapy.Â
University of Florida College of Medicine received $100,000 from the Lyrics for Life Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by the platinum-selling band Sister Hazel, and Stop Children’s Cancer Inc.Â
Walther Cancer Foundation has pledged $10 million to Riley Children’s Foundation for children’s cancer research.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Cancer Center were awarded more than $7.6 million over four years from NCI to comprehensively study late effects of childhood cancer in a diverse population of childhood cancer survivors, including their medical, neurocognitive, and psychosocial outcomes. In addition, they will evaluate potential educational and sociodemographic barriers to obtaining survivorship care.
