The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
Above, Crazy 8 Grant teams gathered in Philadelphia in April to share progress on their projects, collaborate, and make valuable connections. Teams traveled from all over the world.
In 2020, ALSF launched its largest, most ambitious grant category ever — the Crazy 8 Initiative. More than just a funding source, the Crazy 8 brings together multi-disciplinary teams from all around the world to study, collaborate, and ultimately make breakthroughs in the search to cure the deadliest childhood cancers. They meet monthly virtually, travel to one another’s labs, and gather in Philadelphia to problem-solve and share progress and technology.
Together, these scientists are making a difference, one incredible discovery at a time.
Several years into their work,... Read More
Jessica Tsai, above, lounges in her lab before its March opening at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
One of Jessica Tsai’s research projects produced hundreds (and hundreds) of gigabytes of data. If you printed this information out, you would need at least 10,000 cases of printer paper, which is pretty unimaginable, so Tsai likes to use the very technical measurement of “a lot.”
But don’t let her casual measurement methodology fool you. Tsai, a pediatric neuro-oncologist and Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation-funded researcher, is serious about data. She lists data... Read More
In her lab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Yael Mossé leads an international team of researchers studying MYCN, a treatment-elusive mutated gene that drives cancer. At City of Hope in Los Angeles, Dr. Linda Malkas is working on a liquid formulation of promising cancer drug she developed, so that drug can be trialed in children as well as adults. In Memphis, Dr. Rebecca Gardner is working to make CAR T immunotherapy more effective, more accessible, and more equitable for kids with cancer. In her Vienna, Austria lab, Dr. Anna Obeneuf combines biology with cutting-edge technology... Read More
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