In 2020 and 2023, Smita Matkar, Ph.D., at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) received early research funding from Rally...
Why Early Research Matters: Rally’s Role in Advancing Neuroblastoma Care
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Rally-Funded Discoveries
A Bold Idea, Backed Early: Rally’s Role in Advancing Leukemia Research
In 2016, Kimberly Stegmaier, M.D., at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute received early research funding from Rally Foundation for Childhood...
Rally-Funded Research Helps Kids with Brain Tumors Get the Right Treatment
When Angela Waanders, M.D., M.P.H, was just beginning her research career at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Rally Foundation for...
Rally Funding Helps Build a National Model for Supportive Care in Childhood Cancer
When your child is diagnosed with cancer, everything changes. Families face long hospital stays, tough treatments and overwhelming...
Tiny Particles, Big Hope: How Dr. Wu’s Smart Medicine Could Help Kids with Cancer
Did you know that some medicines are so smart they can go right to the bad stuff and leave the good stuff alone? That’s exactly what...
Rally-Funded Discovery: Blocking Brain Cancer’s Bosses
Brain cancer is scary, especially when it affects kids. A group of brain cancers, called pediatric high-grade gliomas, are both common and...
From Idea to Clinical Trial: How Dr. David Loeb’s Research Is Changing Childhood Cancer Treatment
Dr. David Loeb, M.D., Ph.D., from the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, has dedicated his career to finding better...
How Rally’s Early Support Helped Launch a Surgeon’s Mission to Defeat Childhood Cancer
When Eric Rellinger, M.D., was training to become a surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he became fascinated by how cancer...
The Power of Seed Funding: Dr. Kevin Bunting’s Breakthroughs in Pediatric AML Research
When we first met Kevin Bunting, Ph.D., from Emory University, we saw a scientist with big ideas and bold goals. His work focused on...
Turning Data Into Hope: Rally’s Impact on Pediatric Brain Tumor Research
Since 2022, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research has played a key role in helping Adam Resnick, Ph.D., at Children’s Hospital of...
The Heart of Survivorship: How Rally Funding Helped Prevent Heart Failure in Childhood Cancer Survivors
For many kids who beat cancer, the battle does not end when treatment does. Years later, they can face new health challenges caused by the...
Fighting Osteosarcoma with a Bold Idea
When Lily Guenther, M.D., was just starting her career in childhood cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Rally Foundation for...
Helping Kids With Cancer Feel Better: How One Doctor’s Research Is Changing Lives
When kids go through cancer treatment, they often feel pain, nausea, anxiety and other tough symptoms and side effects. Lillian Sung,...
A Breakthrough for Down Syndrome and Leukemia
Kids with Down syndrome are 20 times more likely to get a type of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Sadly, they also...
From Idea to Impact: How Rally’s Seed Funding Helped Dr. Christian Hurtz Make a Big Discovery
When kids get cancer, doctors and scientists work hard to find new and better treatments. But every big discovery starts with seed...
Rally-Funded Discoveries
From Bold Idea to Global Impact: How Rally Helped Launch Dr. Adam Durbin’s Groundbreaking Research
In 2018, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research said yes to a bold idea and an ambitious young scientist. That small but significant decision, a seed grant to Adam Durbin, M.D., Ph.D., did more than fund a project. It helped launch a career, a lab and a series of discoveries now rippling across the globe in the fight against childhood cancer. This is what happens when early support meets extraordinary potential. Tools That Touch the World One of the most exciting outcomes of Dr....
Rally-Funded Discovery: From Early Belief to Lifesaving Care
In 2018, Hamid Bassiri, M.D., Ph.D., at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia received early funding from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. That support came at the perfect moment. It gave his lab the chance to explore a big and hopeful idea. Could the immune system help save kids with neuroblastoma? Dr. Bassiri and his team discovered how a treatment called dinutuximab, also known as Unituxin, helps the immune system find and destroy cancer cells. Today, this treatment is...
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...
How Rally Foundation Helped Dr. Damon Reed Help Kids with Cancer
Damon Reed, M.D., is a doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering who works hard to find better ways to help kids and teens with cancer. He received research money from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research in 2009 and 2011. This money helped him try new ideas, like mixing different medicines to see if they work better together. One of the big things he tested was using a mix of two cancer-fighting drugs for kids whose tumors came back. The study helped doctors figure out how to safely use...
Rally’s Support Helped Spark New Discoveries in Childhood Leukemia Research
Daniel Lacorazza, Ph.D., a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, received seed funding from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research between 2013 and 2015. That early support helped launch a series of important discoveries focused on the two most common types of childhood leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). With Rally Foundation’s support, they studied a natural compound called sulforaphane, found in vegetables like broccoli. Their research...
Rally-Funded Discovery: Protecting Hearts After Cancer
When kids go through cancer treatment, it’s not just the cancer doctors have to worry about. Sometimes, those powerful treatments can also hurt the heart. That’s where Eric Chow, M.D., a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, comes in. Thanks to funding from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, Dr. Chow and his team are working to spot heart problems early, before they become serious. Using Ultrasound to Watch the Heart Rally Foundation’s early funding helped Dr. Chow...