2019 Pediatric Cancer Research and Non-Research Awards
Visit the listing of 2017-2018 Grant Recipients
The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health
- $8,000 6th Annual “Shirley’s Kids” Respite Weekend
- $25,000 Education and Instructional Support Program
Children’s National Health System
- $75,000 Yanxin Pei, Ph.D. for research in Medullablastoma
- $25,000 Continuation of Fertility Preservation Program
Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai
- $20,000 Adolescent and Young Adult Support Group
Hopecam
- $30,000 Expanding access to technology in classrooms enabling local students with pediatric cancer to remain in school during treatment
Horizon Day Camp
- $25,000 Funding for five children to attend camp for seven (7) weeks during Summer 2020
Johns Hopkins Medicine
- $75,000 Charles Eberhart, M.D., Ph.D. for research in High Grade Glioma
- $75,000 Eric Raabe, M.D., Ph.D. for research in Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors
- $75,000 Cara Rabik, M.D., Ph.D. for research in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
- $100,000 Lei Peng, M.D. for research in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (CCF Giant Food NextGen Award)
- $100,000 toward $1.5 M Pledge for The Children’s Cancer Foundation, Inc.’s Pediatric Oncology Outpatient Unit in the Bloomberg Children’s Tower
Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
- $75,000 Joanna Kitlinska, Ph.D. for research in Ewing sarcoma
- $100,000 Jeffrey Toretsky, M.D. (4th Annual Force 3 Fellowship Award) for research in Ewing sarcoma
- $75,000 Ayküt Uren, M.D. for research in Rhabdomyosarcoma
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health
- $75,000 Nirali Shah, M.D. for research in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
University of Maryland Medical Center
- $32,000 toward $200,000 pledge for The Children’s Cancer Foundation, Inc.’s Magic Castle at the Maryland Proton Treatment Center
Total Research, Program and Commitments funded in 2019 $990,000
Total Grants Awarded 1983-2019: $39,674,047
