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Translating today's discoveries in childhood cancer research into tomorrow's treatments.

Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute is only one of two institutes in the United States dedicated solely to pediatric cancer research. Its 20 laboratories focus their strengths in cancer genomics, DNA repair, RNA biology, and drug development on finding new and less toxic treatments for childhood cancers.

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Our research strengths include cancer genomics, DNA damage, RNA biology, and drug development. We are developing expertise in drug delivery, with a focus on the nanotechnology-driven delivery of small RNA mimics and inhibitors.

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Panneerdoss Subbarayalu, PhD, to receive NIH, NCI R21 Grant, “Targeting the RNA Modifying Enzyme ALKBH5 in Medulloblastoma

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Allison Grimes, M.D., MSCI, Awarded $999K CPRIT Grant to Study “Expansion of HPV Vaccination Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer”

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Katsumi Kitagawa, Pharm.D., PhD, to Receive NIH Grant to study “The Role of EWSR1 at the Centromere.”

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Nature: Structural Insights into BCDX2 Complex Function in Homologous Recombination (Sung Lab)

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  • Open Access Government: Developing novel therapies for childhood cancers (Houghton)

  • Cancers: Dysregulation of Type I Interferon (IFN-I) Signaling: A Potential Contributor to Racial Disparity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) (Lai)

  • Texas Public Radio: “Fighting childhood cancer in San Antonio” (Aune)


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Events


    • Sep
      26

      Hyundai Hope on Wheels Handprint Ceremony

    • Sep
      29

      Greehey CCRI Seminar Series, Fall ’23: Peter W Lewis, PhD, Univ of Wisconsin

      Presentation “The Role of Aberrant Heterochromatin in Pediatric Cancers”
    • Oct
      27

      Greehey CCRI Seminar Series, Fall ’23: Ludmil B. Alexandrov, PhD, Moores Cancer Center, UCSD

      Presentation: “Anthology of Unusual Patterns of Somatic Mutations in Cancer Genomes”

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