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Newly Elected COG Chair Dr. Douglas Hawkins Shares His ‘North Star’

by Dean Crowe | Mar 22, 2020

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 Hawkins, a Rally-funded Researcher who has served for the past nine years on the Rally Medical Advisory Board and received funding for early phase trials and biologic specimen collection at Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH). Dr. Hawkins is also the Division Chief of Hematology-Oncology and the Associate Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational...

Research for Recurrent Brain Tumors Shows Promising Preliminary Results

by Rally Foundation | May 9, 2019

As a Rally Researcher and the primary investigator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gregory Friedman, M.D. is devoted to studying malignant brain tumors in hopes of developing new and improved immunotherapies to treat children with recurrent tumors. One such treatment has shown promising preliminary results, and the therapy involves an unexpected source: the common cold sore virus, otherwise known as herpes simplex or G207. Thanks to Rally Foundation funding, Dr. Friedman and his...

Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Announces $3 Million in Grant Awards

by Rally Foundation | Apr 2, 2019

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.

New Developments in Osteosarcoma Therapies

by Chris Tsz-Kwong Man, MD | Feb 20, 2019

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.

International Childhood Cancer Day

by Rally Foundation | Feb 15, 2019

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.