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Rally Researchers
The Spark Has Ignited A Fire: How Rally’s Seed Funding Paved the Way for Dr. Volchenboum and the PCDC
At Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research, we often describe ourselves as “philanthropic seed investors in the next great...
The New England Journal of Medicine
Chills ran up and down my arms when I opened the link that Rally-funded researcher Dr. Gregory Friedman sent. I was staring at the New...
Rally Foundation Announces Young Investigator Recipients of its Largest-Ever Grant Awards
We are living in unprecedented times. As the world grapples with a number of issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, nothing seems normal...
How Rally’s Grant Helped Rally Researcher Dr. Michael Kinnaman: Part 2
Rally Researcher, Medical Advisory Board member and pediatric oncologist Dr. Michael Kinnaman is the recipient of Rally’s Postdoctoral and...
Why I Chose Pediatric Oncology and Research
Rally Researcher and pediatric oncologist Dr. Michael Kinnaman received a Rally Postdoctoral and Clinical Research Fellow Grant. In part...
$3.3 Million of Good News
Could you use some good news? We have some good news. Actually, we have some GREAT news! Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research...
Newly Elected COG Chair Dr. Douglas Hawkins Shares His ‘North Star’
Rally was pleased when it was announced that the newly elected chair of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) was going to be Dr. Doug...
Research for Recurrent Brain Tumors Shows Promising Preliminary Results
As a Rally Researcher and the primary investigator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gregory Friedman, M.D. is devoted to...
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Announces $3 Million in Grant Awards
In the United States, cancer is the number one disease killer of children. Yet pediatric cancer isn’t exclusive to America; it’s a global epidemic that affects more than 300,000 children around the world.
Rally Researchers
What are Oncolytic Viruses?
A key part of Rally’s mission is to find better treatments with fewer long-term side effects, and for almost a decade. Rally has invested for almost a decade in oncolytic virus treatments. A promising, cutting-edge, targeted immunotherapy. Oncolytic viruses are genetically modified viruses or naturally occurring viruses that are reprogrammed to selectively replicate in cancer cells killing the cancer without damaging normal cells. Pretty cool. Josh Bernstock, M.D., Ph.D., shares, “Oncolytic...
New and Innovative Study Technique for Osteosarcoma Metastasis
Osteosarcoma (OS) is a type of cancer that begins in the cells that form bones, and mainly affects teenagers and young adults. In metastatic osteosarcoma, the cancer spreads from the primary bone site to another location, most often the lungs. It can also spread to other bones, the brain or other organs. Currently there are no curative treatments for metastatic osteosarcoma. We urgently need to develop new therapies. To better understand a disease, it is common for tumor research studies to...
INSTRuCT Database for Rhabdomyosarcoma Impact
Rally is proud to be the initial funder for the creation of the INSTRuCT Database with a Consortium Grant to Dr. Sam Volchenboum of the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC) at the University of Chicago. Recent advances in genomic medicine look promising in the study of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS). RMS is a rare soft tissue malignancy primarily diagnosed before adolescence. RMS studies are historically challenged, given that only approximately 350 patients are diagnosed with RMS each year in the...
New RNA Therapies for Glioblastoma from Small Phase 1 Study
Glioblastoma (GBM) in children and adults is a deadly brain tumor with a poor prognosis. Current treatment includes surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible, followed by radiation and chemotherapy. Unfortunately, most patients still experience tumor growth despite the treatment and have a median survival of less than two years. Immunotherapy has shown success in the treatment of other types of tumors, but that success has been elusive with malignant brain tumors, such as GBM....
What is Big Data and Childhood Cancer Research
After being born and living in Turkey my whole life, I came to the US for college to study biological sciences at the University of Chicago. When the laboratory research internship I found for the summer of my first year was cancelled due to COVID-19, I joined a resume match program of my school’s Career Advancement Office, which matched students with employers based on experience and preferences. It was initially through this program that I matched with the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons...
The Spark Has Ignited A Fire: How Rally’s Seed Funding Paved the Way for Dr. Volchenboum and the PCDC
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...