The Childhood Cancer Blog
The Childhood Cancer Blog
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) has always believed investing in futures – whether that means helping kids get the treatment they need or funding researchers to keep expanding the field of pediatric cancer research. The Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program was designed for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students to experience the field firsthand under the guidance of an experienced research mentor.
POST grantees from across the country conduct original research alongside their mentors at several accredited institutions. In 2024, 47 students were awarded... 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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