Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation works to treat children in the Inland Empire that may be diagnosed with cancer, working to give them the best treatment they can provide. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is the only site in Florida participating in the Pediatric Oncology Experimental Therapeutics Investigators' Consortium (POETIC) and serves as a referral site for the Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium. Dr. Libes-Bander and team's goal is to work toward being able to provide personalized medicine for each child to improve cancer outcomes for children. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Kapi'olani Medical Center's unique geographic location allows Dr. Si Lim and colleagues to serve children both within the state of Hawaii, but also other ethnically underrepresented populations such as those from Guam and Micronesia. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports funding towards positions to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Many patients treated at the Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation are of minority background, and historically minority patients have not had the same access to health care or medical research. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

At SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, children of all ages receive the highest level of compassionate care, regardless of their family's ability to pay. The skilled professionals at The Costas Center provide multidisciplinary care for a wide variety of cancers, including leukemia and lymphoma, bone and soft tissue cancers, brain and spinal cord tumors and more. Dr. Ferguson and colleagues offer both inpatient and outpatient services in a healing environment designed with children and families in mind. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

The Renown hematology oncology program was established in 2016 and is the sole provider of pediatric patients with cancer in their region. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia serves one of the most underserved urban neighborhoods in the nation. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

El Paso Children's Hospital is the sole provider of pediatric cancer care and clinical trials in the El Paso region, serving a predominantly Hispanic, underserved population. Positioned on the Mexico border, the hospital addresses a critical need for specialized cancer care among Hispanic children, who often face more aggressive cancers and poorer outcomes due to genetic factors and limited access to clinical trials. Since opening in 2012, the hospital has become a key player in pediatric oncology, supported by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. Membership in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) since 2014 has allowed Dr. Carcamo and colleagues to offer cutting-edge therapeutic protocols and comprehensive care through research collaboration. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) cares for children diagnosed with cancer in southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina. Clinical trials at CHKD allow for children throughout their great region to access novel agents without traveling far from home. This grant supports the Clinical Research Team to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

Through the HSHS Wisconsin Clinical Research Institute, children have access to cancer research trials at a location close to home. This grant supports Clinical Researchers to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supportspersonnel to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

The recent development of therapies that stimulate the immune system to eliminate cancer has transformed treatment options for many patients. However, these therapies have generally been less successful in treating childhood cancers, in part because cancers in younger patients typically have acquired fewer of the genetic alterations that can be recognized by T cells, the immune cell type most commonly used for cancer treatment. This project aims to harness the cancer clearing functions of macrophages, a distinct immune cell type that can recognize and kill even those cancer cells that carry few genetic alterations. Dr. Kamber and colleagues will focus on identifying strategies that unleash macrophage anti-cancer functions in the context of Burkitt lymphoma, an aggressive form of lymphoma that is among the most common types of cancer in children.

This grant is funded by and named for Jack's Pack - We Still Have His Back, a St. Baldrick's Hero Fund. Jack Klein was a ten year old who loved life, laughing and monkeys. During his illness, his community of family and friends near and far rallied around him under the moniker "Jack's Pack". Their slogan was "We have Jack's Back". After Jack succumbed to Burkitt's Lymphoma, his "pack" focused their energy and efforts to funding a cure...just as Jack would have wanted.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

The University of Illinois at Chicago, Rush University Medical Center, and John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County Program exists to meet the needs of an extremely diverse population who currently struggle with cancer or who have survived this terrible disease but are at great risk for many long-term health problems. UIC, Rush, and Stroger Medical Centers anchor the near west side of Chicago and serve incredibly vulnerable patients and families, the majority of whom have very limited personal resources, medical knowledge, and English language skills. This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.

This grant supports a Clinical Research Associate to ensure that more kids can be treated on clinical trials, often their best hope for a cure.