Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a nonprofit organization, has provided new Reach Awards grants to two Baylor College of Medicine researchers to advance their immunotherapy-based treatment for childhood cancer.
The two grant recipients are: Dr. William Decker, assistant professor of immunology at Baylor, and Dr. Cliona Rooney, professor in the Center for Cell and Therapy at Baylor, Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist.
Programs that support the prevention, treatment and cure of neoplasms, abnormal formations of tissue, such as a tumor or growth, which serve no useful function, but grow at the expense of the healthy organism.
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Grants for Immunotherapy-based Treatment Approaches for Childhood Cancer