Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program
The Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program is designed for undergraduate, graduate and medical students who have an interest in pediatric oncology research and would like to experience the field first hand. Students train with a pediatric oncology research mentor. Students may join a research project underway in a mentor’s lab or begin an original investigation with the mentor.
View all ALSF funded projects here.
| Recipient | Institution | Type of Cancer | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Perkins | Baylor College of Medicine | General Pediatric Cancer | 2017 |
| John Szigety | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) | 2017 |
| Kevin Pineault | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Solid and Bone Cancers | 2017 |
| Nikit Venishetty | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | Ewing Sarcoma | 2017 |
| Keerthana Sankar | University of California San Francisco | Glioma | 2017 |
| Emily Crawford | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Neuroblastoma | 2017 |
| Melanie Schweitzer | Weill Cornell Medical College | Brain Tumors | 2017 |
| Brandon Diessner | University of Minnesota | Osteosarcoma | 2017 |
| Smit Shah | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) | 2017 |
| Tu Dinh | University of California San Francisco | Hodgkin Lymphoma | 2017 |
