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The Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute is a research center in San Antonio, Texas, US. The institute was established in 1999 under a $200,000,000 endowment from the State of Texas tobacco settlement, at the time the largest single oncology endowment in US history. The $50 million facility was completed in 2004.
In 2013, the Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund was established to designate funding specifically for osteosarcoma research. It's administered by the Children's Cancer Research Fund and donations fund research at the University of Minnesota. The fund honors Zach Sobiech, a musician who died of osteosarcoma in May 2013 at age 18.
The Children's Oncology Group (COG), a clinical trials group supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is the world's largest organization devoted exclusively to pediatric cancer research. [1] The COG conducts a spectrum of clinical research and translational research trials for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer.
The Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act (H.R. 2019; 113th Congress), which was passed into law on April 3, 2014, diverts the money in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund which was earmarked for party conventions, to pay for research into pediatric cancer through the National Institutes of Health.
PCF holds professional conferences around the U.S. for those involved in the field of cancer. [4] They have funded over 300 scientists and over 430 peer-reviewed research projects across the world in more than 150 leading research institutions nationwide, as well as raised awareness of cancer and educated the public about it through exhibits, the distribution of material, and working with the ...
CureSearch for Children's Cancer is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation that funds next-generation research that will lead to safe, effective commercially viable treatments for children with cancer.
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Developmental Therapeutics is a new initiative made possible by a gift by the Pediatric Cancer Foundation. [8] It includes basic research to define novel therapeutic targets, translational research to adapt observations from the laboratory to patients and clinical research to examine the behavior of novel therapeutics. Drs.