I am the Medical Director of the Developmental Therapeutics Program at Columbia University/ The Children's Hospital of New York, which brings novel cancer therapies to children for whom standard treatments have failed. We do this in the form of clinical trials, so that we can advance the knowledge for all children who have been made to suffer these terrible diseases. Ours is the only National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Children's Oncology Phase I program in the New York tri-state area, serving children referred from Connecticut, New Jersey, Westchester, Orange County, Long Island and the five boroughs of New York City. We receive very little compensation from the NCI or pharmaceutical industry and are almost entirely supported by philanthropic dollars such as the generous infrastucture grant provided to us by the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!