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PHILADELPHIA, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Alex s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), a nonprofit foundation devoted to finding cures for children with cancer, announces grant award recipients of their Crazy 8 Initiative. The recipients will receive grants totaling more than $18.5 million, which is the single, largest funding commitment from ALSF to date.
The Initiative kicked off in the Fall of 2018 with a meeting that brought together more than 90 scientists from around the world to help define the research landscape in order to tackle major obstacles impeding progress toward cures for childhood cancer. Through a rigorous review process, ALSF narrowed down over 100 applications to four projects that will work to accelerate the pace of new cure discovery.
Alex s Lemonade Stand Foundation Gives $18 5M, Largest Amount Yet
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IMAGE: Tamara Weiss, PhD, and Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, discover that the uncontrolled growth of neuroblastomas (green tumor cells) is stopped by a signal molecule produced by Schwann cells (magenta). view more
Credit: Photo: Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, and Tamara Weiss, PhD
Copyright: St. Anna Children s Cancer Research Institute
Image: Immunofluorescence image of Schwann cells (magenta) and neuroblastoma cells (green)
Copyright: Weiss T, Taschner-Mandl S et al.,.
A factor that turns malignant tumors into benign ones? - That is exactly what scientists at St. Anna Children s Cancer Research Institute have discovered. Together with colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna (Faculty of Chemistry), they studied tumors of the peripheral nervous system in children, namely neuroblastomas. The scientists discovered that the uncontrolled growth of benign neuroblastomas is stopped by a signal molecule produced by Schwann cells
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