St. Baldrick's Foundation Funds $8.4 Million in Grants

2023-07-20

Grants will support the best childhood cancer research

LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The St. Baldrick's Foundation, the nation's largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants, is proud to announce the newest round of research grants totaling $8.4 million. The grants will support 34 projects at 23 leading academic and research institutions with a goal to find cures and better treatments for childhood cancers.

The projects include research to improve treatment effectiveness, reduce side effects, understand the biology of pediatric cancers, identify predictive factors, address disparities, and develop innovative therapies to improve the lives of kids with cancer.

Grants were awarded in the following categories:

Consortium Research Grant - Funding given to groups of researchers at multiple institutions who are collaborating on projects with great promise.

International Scholar - Awards to train researchers from low- and middle- income countries to prepare them to answer specific research questions related to childhood cancer in their home country.

Research Grant - Funding for research projects that look to find new and better cures for childhood cancer.

St. Baldrick's Scholar - Three or more years of funding given to early career professionals who are pursuing exciting research and without funding might have to leave the field.

New grants were awarded to:

Alabama

Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville

St. Baldrick's Scholar: Le Su, Ph.D.

California

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles

St. Baldrick's International Scholar: Anupong Sirirungreung M.D., M.P.H.

Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte

St. Baldrick's Scholar: Srividya Swaminathan, Ph.D.

Research Grant: Ling Li, Ph.D.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Babak Moghimi, M.D.

Continuing Consortium Research Grant

University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego

St. Baldrick's Scholar: Hari Narayan, M.D., M.S.C.E.

University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz

Continuing Consortium Research Grant

Georgia

Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta

St. Baldrick's Scholar: Waitman Aumann, M.D.

Continuing Consortium Research Grant

Illinois

University of Chicago, Chicago

Continuing Consortium Research Grant

Pediatric Cancer Data Commons: Samuel Volchenboum M.D., Ph.D., M.S.

Massachusetts

Boston Children's Hospital, Boston

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Yangming Ou, Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Cancer Institute, Boston

St. Baldrick's Scholar: Jessica Tsai, M.D., Ph.D.

Continuing Consortium Research Grant

Maryland

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Challice Bonifant, M.D., Ph.D.

Research Grant: Eric Raabe, M.D., Ph.D.

Minnesota

National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis

Continuing Consortium Research Grant

University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Mark Osborn, Ph.D.

North Carolina

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill

Research Grant: Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D., D.Sci.

New York

Columbia University Medical Center, New York

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Cheng-Chia Wu, M.D., Ph.D.

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York

Research Grant: Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D.

Ohio

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): LaQuita Jones, D.O.

Research Grant: Stella Davies, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.

The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Benjamin Stanton, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia

Research Grant: Jennifer Kalish, M.D., Ph.D.

The Children's Oncology Group Foundation, Philadelphia

Cooperative Research Grant

South Carolina

Prisma Health in the Midlands, Columbia

St. Baldrick's Scholar: Anna Hoppmann, M.D.

Tennessee

St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Memphis

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Paulina Velasquez, M.D.

St. Baldrick's Scholar (continuing): Kelsey Bertrand, M.B.B.S.

Consortium Research Grant

Texas

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Research Grant: Carl Allen, M.D., Ph.D.

Continuing Consortium Research Grant

Since 2005, St. Baldrick's has granted over $338 million to fund the best childhood cancer research, wherever it takes place.

The next set of grants will be announced in November, supported by donations made between now and October. To learn more about the research these specific grants are supporting, check out the St. Baldrick's blog. For more information about St. Baldrick's Foundation grants or ways to get involved, please visit StBaldricks.org

About St. Baldrick's Foundation

Every 2 minutes, a child somewhere in the world is diagnosed with cancer. In the U.S., 1 in 5 will not survive. The St. Baldrick's Foundation, the largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants, is on a mission to Conquer Kids' Cancer by supporting the most promising research to find cures and better treatments for all childhood cancers. When you give to St. Baldrick's, you don't just give to one hospital – you support virtually every institution with the expertise to treat kids with cancer across the U.S. St. Baldrick's ensures that children fighting cancer now — and those diagnosed in the future — will have access to the most cutting-edge treatment, by supporting every stage of research, from new ideas in the lab to the training of the next generation of researchers, to lifesaving clinical trials. Visit StBaldricks.org and help #ConquerKidsCancer.

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