Since 2022, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research has played a key role in helping Adam Resnick, Ph.D., at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Children’s Brain Tumor Network advance their mission to find better treatments for kids with brain tumors. Rally Foundation’s support has helped grow this global effort by expanding access to data, improving research tools, and fueling discoveries that bring hope to families everywhere. The Children’s Brain Tumor Network is a group of...

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 very treatments that saved their lives. One of the most serious is heart failure, a condition that can quietly develop over time and deeply affect survivors’ health and quality of life. That is why early research to prevent it is so critical.  With early support from the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, Saro Armenian, D.O., MPH, from City of...

When Lily Guenther, M.D., was just starting her career in childhood cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research gave her something big, support to chase a bold idea. She was studying osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone cancer that mostly affects kids and teens. It’s especially hard to treat when it spreads to other parts of the body. This is called metastatic cancer, and sadly, many kids already have metastatic osteosarcoma when they’re...

When kids go through cancer treatment, they often feel pain, nausea, anxiety and other tough symptoms and side effects. Lillian Sung, M.D., Ph.D., at The Hospital for Sick Children (also known as SickKids), wanted to help make that better. With early funding from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research in 2015 and 2017, she started a project called SPARK. One part of it, called SSPedi, is a tool that lets kids tell doctors how they’re feeling during treatment. Because of Rally...

Kids with Down syndrome are 20 times more likely to get a type of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Sadly, they also have a harder time with the side effects from treatment. But thanks to early funding from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, one scientist decided to change that and he’s making real progress. John D. Crispino, Ph.D., was a researcher at Northwestern University when he received his first Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research grant in...

When kids get cancer, doctors and scientists work hard to find new and better treatments. But every big discovery starts with seed funding, the first crucial investment that helps scientists test bold ideas. That’s exactly what happened with Christian Hurtz, Ph.D. Between 2019 and 2022, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research provided seed funding to support Dr. Hurtz’s research. This funding was a game-changer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when many labs had to stop work, Rally...