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Rally Foundation For Childhood Cancer Research Honors Childhood Cancer Awareness at Georgia’s State Capitol
11Alive covered Rally Foundation's impactful event at the Georgia Capitol, where Governor Brian Kemp signed a proclamation declaring September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The event featured Rally Kid Cooper, who spoke alongside other Rally families, supporters, researchers and childhood cancer organizations. Watch the full coverage by 11Alive here.
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2024
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month – and this September, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research has so many amazing things planned! Please join us as we raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research. Keep checking back to see what new events are added throughout the month. Click on the buttons below to see what is happening nationwide and in specific cities.National Campaigns for the month of September: All through September: #GOLDSTRONG: this is the universal trademarked hashtag for childhood cancer and the entire community is invited to use it. Please use #GOLDSTRONG all month and all year. 47 Faces of Rally 47 Faces of Rally honors those 47 children who are diagnosed with cancer every day. This fundraiser is a powerful way for Rally Kids and their families to use their collective voices. Throughout the month, they help raise critical funds for childhood...
Outside The Box Grants Announcement 2024
Rally Awards $500,000 in Novel Grants to Eight Childhood Cancer Researchers Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (Rally) awarded half a million dollars to eight researchers at seven different institutions for Outside the Box novel childhood cancer research ideas. These Outside the Box Grants provide seed funding for brand new ideas that directly address pediatric, adolescent and young adult rhabdomyosarcoma or osteosarcoma as well as red light therapy for neuropathy as a side effect of childhood cancer. “Rally sees itself as philanthropic seed investors in the next great discovery — we like to invest early and are willing to take risks because these Outside the Box ideas may pave the way to finding better treatments and cures,” says Dean Crowe, Founder and CEO. Each grant was dual peer-reviewed and only the highest scoring applications received funding. OUTSIDE THE BOX...
2024 William Olson Impact Award Winner
ATLANTA – Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research recently announced their 2024 William Olson Impact Award winner, Dr. Gregory Friedman of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. This prestigious award is given to a doctor who exemplifies commitment, determination, and resilience in caring for kids fighting cancer and discovering new treatments. Each year the Rally Foundation’s Board of Directors selects one Rally-funded researcher to receive the William Olson Impact Award. Dr. Friedman has been a Rally-funded researcher since 2013, and is currently funded to support the bench-to-bedside development of targeted immunotherapies, including clinical trials and laboratory work designed to enhance the therapy further for future trials. Dr. Friedman has also served for more than 10 years on Rally’s Medical Advisory Board. “I am truly honored to receive this significant...
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Awards a Multi-Institutional Grant to MD Anderson, Harvard and MIT for Breakthrough Pediatric Brain Tumor Technology
PRESS RELEASE: July 19, 2024 Atlanta, Georgia – Dr. Gregory Friedman, Chief of Pediatric Neuro-oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, along with Dr. Pablo Valdes, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and the Jeannie Sealy Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and Dr. Joshua Bernstock, a neurosurgeon-scientist at Harvard Medical School and MIT, have recently been awarded a research grant from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. This award supports their joint research project, “Interrogation of Brain Tumor Immunophenotypes with Expansion Microscopy”. Drs. Valdes and Bernstock have also recently published a significant study in Science Translational Medicine. Together with their teams at MIT and Harvard, they developed a breakthrough technology, termed decrowding expansion pathology (dExPath), which enhances...
Family & Kids Magazine Features Rally Kid Colton
Family & Kids Chattahoochee Valley Magazine highlights Rally Kid Colton's experience at Atlanta's Rally On the Runway. Read about his journey and learn how to support the Rally Foundation's mission to fight childhood cancer in the Hoo Knows Issuu! https://issuu.com/hooknows/docs/chattvalley_june24_web?e=9240409/98324313
Rally Foundation For Childhood Cancer Research Honors Childhood Cancer Awareness at Georgia’s State Capitol
11Alive covered Rally Foundation's impactful event at the Georgia Capitol, where Governor Brian Kemp signed a proclamation declaring September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The event featured Rally Kid Cooper, who spoke alongside other Rally families, supporters, researchers and childhood cancer organizations. Watch the full coverage by 11Alive here.
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2024
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month – and this September, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research has so many amazing things planned! Please join us as we raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research. Keep checking back to see what new events are added throughout the month. Click on the buttons below to see what is happening nationwide and in specific cities.National Campaigns for the month of September: All through September: #GOLDSTRONG: this is the universal...
Outside The Box Grants Announcement 2024
Rally Awards $500,000 in Novel Grants to Eight Childhood Cancer Researchers Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (Rally) awarded half a million dollars to eight researchers at seven different institutions for Outside the Box novel childhood cancer research ideas. These Outside the Box Grants provide seed funding for brand new ideas that directly address pediatric, adolescent and young adult rhabdomyosarcoma or osteosarcoma as well as red light therapy for neuropathy as a side effect...
2024 William Olson Impact Award Winner
ATLANTA – Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research recently announced their 2024 William Olson Impact Award winner, Dr. Gregory Friedman of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. This prestigious award is given to a doctor who exemplifies commitment, determination, and resilience in caring for kids fighting cancer and discovering new treatments. Each year the Rally Foundation’s Board of Directors selects one Rally-funded researcher to receive the William Olson Impact Award....
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Awards a Multi-Institutional Grant to MD Anderson, Harvard and MIT for Breakthrough Pediatric Brain Tumor Technology
PRESS RELEASE: July 19, 2024 Atlanta, Georgia – Dr. Gregory Friedman, Chief of Pediatric Neuro-oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, along with Dr. Pablo Valdes, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and the Jeannie Sealy Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and Dr. Joshua Bernstock, a neurosurgeon-scientist at Harvard Medical School and MIT, have recently been awarded a research grant from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer...
Family & Kids Magazine Features Rally Kid Colton
Family & Kids Chattahoochee Valley Magazine highlights Rally Kid Colton's experience at Atlanta's Rally On the Runway. Read about his journey and learn how to support the Rally Foundation's mission to fight childhood cancer in the Hoo Knows Issuu! https://issuu.com/hooknows/docs/chattvalley_june24_web?e=9240409/98324313