How Rally Helped Dr. Slotkin Fight a Tough Cancer

Emily Slotkin, M.D., at Memorial Sloan Kettering wanted to help kids and teens with a cancer called Ewing sarcoma. It’s a fast-growing cancer in bones and soft tissue. Thanks to a grant from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, she got to do research that looked deep into the DNA mistake, called EWSR1-FLI1, that causes this cancer. 

She studied how this gene mistake works and tested new medicines that try to shut it down, like creating the perfect key for a lock. This early research helped her get more funding and start clinical trials, which test new treatments in real patients. Now, her work is giving new hope to young people with another rare cancer called desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT). 

Rally Foundation believed in her early, and that belief is now helping save lives. 

This is why early-stage research funding matters.

This is the power of philanthropic seed investing.

This is Rally.