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Rally Awards Outside the Box Grants

Rally Awards Outside the Box Grants

by | Jul 31, 2023

Rally Awards Novel Grants to Three Childhood Cancer Researchers Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (“Rally”) awarded $150,000 to three researchers at three different institutions for Outside the Box novel childhood cancer research ideas. “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. Rally is pleased to partner with Kids Join The Fight and cureMEC for this year’s competition. These Outside the Box Grants provide seed funding to three researchers for brand new ideas that directly address pediatric, adolescent and young adult brain cancer or myoepithelial carcinoma. ...

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Rally Awards Most Grants Ever

Rally Awards Most Grants Ever

by | Apr 2, 2023

Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Awards $4 Million in 2023 In 2023, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (“Rally”) will award a total of $4 million to 57 researchers across 30 institutions worldwide – the largest number of childhood cancer research grants ever to be distributed since Rally was founded in 2005. “This brings the total amount of research funds that Rally has awarded to $29.4 million – and it is the highest amount we have been able to award in one year,” says Dean Crowe, Founder and CEO. “In 2022, we were delighted by the significant increase in funds raised thanks to our grassroot supporters, special events and incredibly generous corporate donors. Our mission speaks to all: to fund the best research wherever it may be to help find better childhood cancer treatments with fewer long-term side effects and, ultimately, cures.” Rally grants are awarded...

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Rally Career Development Research Grant Award Update

Rally Career Development Research Grant Award Update

by | Mar 7, 2023

An Update on the $300,000 Rally Career Development Award to Dr. Rodriguez-Blanco for Medulloblastoma Research In December 2022, Rally Foundation’s COO Reid Crowe presented a $300,000 Career Development Research Grant to Dr. Jezabel Rodriguez-Blanco, Ph.D. at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Her research is focused on medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain tumor, with the goal of finding new novel therapeutics for this underserved group of patients. We sat down with Dr. Rodriguez-Blanco to see how her research was progressing. Excerpts of our interview with this brilliant childhood cancer researcher are below: What does it mean to your career to win the Rally Career Development Grant with the goal of expediting your research to obtain federal funding? The career development award I got from Rally was my first grant as an independent investigator. Early on,...

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Durbin Keeps Asking New Questions

Durbin Keeps Asking New Questions

by | Sep 27, 2022

Passion for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Research Drives Meaningful Discovery “Every day, I’m motivated to discover more through research that will enable us to better treat children with cancer and improve outcomes with fewer side effects.” Since his first lab job in the summer between his freshman and sophomore year in college, Adam D. Durbin, MD, PhD, of the Division of Molecular Oncology, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has been fascinated by medical research. “I couldn’t believe that I was getting paid to work in Dr. Avrum Gotlieb’s lab. I learned so much that summer and the following ones. I found that this experience really put me ahead in my studies,” Durbin said in a recent interview. “I thought it was so cool that I was working on new research and able to publish papers. It really made me question my direction after undergraduate school: Should...

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One Mission, 51 Childhood Cancer Researchers, $3.4 Million in Grants

One Mission, 51 Childhood Cancer Researchers, $3.4 Million in Grants

by | Mar 30, 2022

Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Awards $3.4 Million in Grants This year, 51 researchers from 31 institutions across the country and worldwide will receive a total of $3.4 million in grants from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. “Rally Foundation has now awarded $25.4 million in grants for childhood cancer research since we started in 2005,” says Dean Crowe, Founder and CEO. “From the beginning, our mission has been to fund the best research wherever it may be to help find better childhood cancer treatments with fewer long-term side effects and, ultimately, cures.” Rally grants are awarded based on a competitive dual peer-review process conducted by Rally’s Medical Advisory Board, which is made up of 60 leading childhood cancer experts. These grants fund all levels of research, from science at the bench to translational, and they include second- and...

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The Spark Has Ignited A Fire: How Rally’s Seed Funding Paved the Way for Dr. Volchenboum and the PCDC

The Spark Has Ignited A Fire: How Rally’s Seed Funding Paved the Way for Dr. Volchenboum and the PCDC

by | Jul 25, 2021

At Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, we often describe ourselves as “philanthropic seed investors in the next great discovery.” That’s because Rally invests early and continues to invest as projects make progress. It’s also because we like to take a few risks when it comes to funding the more “unconventional” research projects. After all, it only takes one spark to light a fire, and that spark—that next great discovery—could pave the way to finding a cure. Dr. Sam Volchenboum’s Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC) was one of those “unconventional” projects that sparked a glorious fire—all because of Rally Kid Ruby, her father Dr. Jonathan Kaufman, and our shared desire to fund groundbreaking research for childhood cancer. How It Started It all started back in 2015, when Rally Kid Ruby was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of soft tissue cancer. Being the...

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Rally Awards Outside the Box Grants

Rally Awards Outside the Box Grants

by | Jul 31, 2023

Rally Awards Novel Grants to Three Childhood Cancer Researchers Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (“Rally”) awarded $150,000 to three researchers at three different institutions for Outside the Box novel childhood cancer research ideas. “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,...

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Rally Awards Most Grants Ever

Rally Awards Most Grants Ever

by | Apr 2, 2023

Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Awards $4 Million in 2023 In 2023, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (“Rally”) will award a total of $4 million to 57 researchers across 30 institutions worldwide – the largest number of childhood cancer research grants ever to be distributed since Rally was founded in 2005. “This brings the total amount of research funds that Rally has awarded to $29.4 million – and it is the highest amount we have been able to award in one year,”...

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Rally Career Development Research Grant Award Update

Rally Career Development Research Grant Award Update

by | Mar 7, 2023

An Update on the $300,000 Rally Career Development Award to Dr. Rodriguez-Blanco for Medulloblastoma Research In December 2022, Rally Foundation’s COO Reid Crowe presented a $300,000 Career Development Research Grant to Dr. Jezabel Rodriguez-Blanco, Ph.D. at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Her research is focused on medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain tumor, with the goal of finding new novel therapeutics for this underserved group of patients. We sat down with...

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Durbin Keeps Asking New Questions

Durbin Keeps Asking New Questions

by | Sep 27, 2022

Passion for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Research Drives Meaningful Discovery “Every day, I’m motivated to discover more through research that will enable us to better treat children with cancer and improve outcomes with fewer side effects.” Since his first lab job in the summer between his freshman and sophomore year in college, Adam D. Durbin, MD, PhD, of the Division of Molecular Oncology, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has been fascinated by medical...

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One Mission, 51 Childhood Cancer Researchers, $3.4 Million in Grants

One Mission, 51 Childhood Cancer Researchers, $3.4 Million in Grants

by | Mar 30, 2022

Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Awards $3.4 Million in Grants This year, 51 researchers from 31 institutions across the country and worldwide will receive a total of $3.4 million in grants from Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. “Rally Foundation has now awarded $25.4 million in grants for childhood cancer research since we started in 2005,” says Dean Crowe, Founder and CEO. “From the beginning, our mission has been to fund the best research wherever it may be to...

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The Spark Has Ignited A Fire: How Rally’s Seed Funding Paved the Way for Dr. Volchenboum and the PCDC

The Spark Has Ignited A Fire: How Rally’s Seed Funding Paved the Way for Dr. Volchenboum and the PCDC

by | Jul 25, 2021

At Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, we often describe ourselves as “philanthropic seed investors in the next great discovery.” That’s because Rally invests early and continues to invest as projects make progress. It’s also because we like to take a few risks when it comes to funding the more “unconventional” research projects. After all, it only takes one spark to light a fire, and that spark—that next great discovery—could pave the way to finding a cure. Dr. Sam Volchenboum’s...

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