Search Results

CancerVax, Inc., the developer of breakthrough cancer drugs that will use the body’s immune system to fight cancer, announced that its UCLA research team has created a promising new drug candidate for treating recurrent Ewing sarcoma, a deadly children’s cancer.

Texas Children’s Hospital is pleased to announce the new executive leadership structure at the Texas Children’s Heart Center, which has been ranked number one in the nation for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery by U.S. News and World Report for seven consecutive years.

The pediatric patients, with a rare neurodegenerative disease, were treated with bluebird bio’s Skysona to slow the progression of neurologic dysfunction. Six patients developed myelodysplastic syndrome and one patient developed acute myeloid leukemia.

MAIA Biotechnology, Inc. announced that Dr. Rachid Drissi, Principal Investigator at the Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor at Ohio State University, will present an abstract detailing the potency of THIO, MAIA’s telomere-targeting agent, as treatment for pediatric brain cancers at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting taking place April 5–10, 2024 in San Diego, California.

Physicians at City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, in cooperation with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), have conducted the largest clinical trial to date seeking to reduce the risk of people who have survived childhood cancer from developing heart failure.

Eureka Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the activation of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals as the first California site to join the ARYA-2 clinical trial ( NCT04634357 ).

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced the discovery of a novel immune-based biomarker that could pave the way for potential lifesaving early detection of high-grade ovarian cancer (HGOC).

Inozyme Pharma, Inc. announced a data presentation and sponsored symposium at the 11th International Conference on Children’s Bone Health, which is being held June 22-25, 2024, in Salzburg, Austria.