$47,840 childhood cancer research grant awarded to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation

MILWAUKEE -- The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-powered and donor-centered charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, is proud to award a one-year, $47,840 grant to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation. This grant is one of 33 infrastructure grants awarded to institutions across the U.S., totaling $2 million.

The grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation will help support a research nurse necessary for the hospital to offer new and innovative treatments to children and adolescents with cancer at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

 “One of the biggest barriers we are facing is the limited availability of our research nurses to support efforts to increase enrollment and open more clinical trials,” Dr. Michael Kelly. “Through the generous support provided by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation we will be able to dedicate time of a research nurse to early phase and investigator initiated clinical trials. This support will allow us to open additional trials and enroll more Wisconsin children with high risk cancers on new and innovative clinical trials.”

 This series of grants, combined with the more than $21.2 million awarded in July to fund cutting-edge research, brings the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s funding total to more than $23 million awarded in 2015. Grants were awarded based on the need of the institution and its patients, anticipated results of the grant and local participation in St. Baldrick’s fundraising events and activities.

“The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is excited to fund this latest round of grants, which will give much needed support to multiple pediatric cancer treatment teams across the U.S.,” said Kathleen Ruddy, chief executive officer of St. Baldrick’s. “These grants will improve the capacity of the institutions to do more research, enroll more children in cutting-edge clinical trials, and complete studies that are in progress. These grants would not be possible without our dedicated volunteers and generous donors who believe that kids deserve better than the toxic medicines that are currently available which all too often harm developing bodies and create lifelong, life-threatening health problems.”

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