Grants will support the best childhood cancer research
LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2023 - The St. Baldrick's Foundation, the nation's largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants, is proud to announce the newest round of research grants totaling $8.4 million. The grants will support 34 projects at 23 leading academic and research institutions with a goal to find cures and better treatments for childhood cancers.
The projects include research to improve treatment effectiveness, reduce side effects, understand the biology of pediatric cancers, identify predictive factors, address disparities, and develop innovative therapies to improve the lives of kids with cancer.
Grants were awarded in the following categories:
Consortium Research Grant - Funding given to groups of researchers at multiple institutions who are collaborating on projects with great promise.
International Scholar - Awards to train researchers from low- and middle- income countries to prepare them to answer specific research questions related to childhood cancer in their home country.
Research Grant - Funding for research projects that look to find new and better cures for childhood cancer.
St. Baldrick's Scholar - Three or more years of funding given to early career professionals who are pursuing exciting research and without funding might have to leave the field.
New grants were awarded to:
Alabama
Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville
St. Baldrick's Scholar: Le Su, Ph.D.
California
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
St. Baldrick's International Scholar: Anupong Sirirungreung M.D., M.P.H.
Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte
St. Baldrick's Scholar: Srividya Swaminathan, Ph.D.
Research Grant: Ling Li, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Babak Moghimi, M.D.
Continuing Consortium Research Grant
University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego
St. Baldrick's Scholar: Hari Narayan, M.D., M.S.C.E.
University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Continuing Consortium Research Grant
Georgia
Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta
St. Baldrick's Scholar: Waitman Aumann, M.D.
Continuing Consortium Research Grant
Illinois
University of Chicago, Chicago
Continuing Consortium Research Grant
Pediatric Cancer Data Commons: Samuel Volchenboum M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Massachusetts
Boston Children's Hospital, Boston
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Yangming Ou, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
St. Baldrick's Scholar: Jessica Tsai, M.D., Ph.D.
Continuing Consortium Research Grant
Maryland
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Challice Bonifant, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Grant: Eric Raabe, M.D., Ph.D.
Minnesota
National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis
Continuing Consortium Research Grant
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Mark Osborn, Ph.D.
North Carolina
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Research Grant: Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D., D.Sci.
New York
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Cheng-Chia Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York
Research Grant: Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D.
Ohio
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): LaQuita Jones, D.O.
Research Grant: Stella Davies, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Benjamin Stanton, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Research Grant: Jennifer Kalish, M.D., Ph.D.
The Children's Oncology Group Foundation, Philadelphia
Cooperative Research Grant
South Carolina
Prisma Health in the Midlands, Columbia
St. Baldrick's Scholar: Anna Hoppmann, M.D.
Tennessee
St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Memphis
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Paulina Velasquez, M.D.
St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Kelsey Bertrand, M.B.B.S.
Consortium Research Grant
Texas
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Research Grant: Carl Allen, M.D., Ph.D.
Continuing Consortium Research Grant
Since 2005, St. Baldrick's has granted over $338 million to fund the best childhood cancer research, wherever it takes place.
The next set of grants will be announced in November, supported by donations made between now and October. To learn more about the research these specific grants are supporting, check out the St. Baldrick's blog. For more information about St. Baldrick's Foundation grants or ways to get involved, please visit StBaldricks.org
About St. Baldrick's Foundation
Every 2 minutes, a child somewhere in the world is diagnosed with cancer. In the U.S., 1 in 5 will not survive. The St. Baldrick's Foundation, the largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants, is on a mission to Conquer Kids' Cancer by supporting the most promising research to find cures and better treatments for all childhood cancers. When you give to St. Baldrick's, you don't just give to one hospital – you support virtually every institution with the expertise to treat kids with cancer across the U.S. St. Baldrick's ensures that children fighting cancer now — and those diagnosed in the future — will have access to the most cutting-edge treatment, by supporting every stage of research, from new ideas in the lab to the training of the next generation of researchers, to lifesaving clinical trials. Visit StBaldricks.org and help #ConquerKidsCancer.
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