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One of only two institutes in the United States...

dedicated solely to pediatric cancer research, the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, with its 18 laboratories, focuses its strengths in cancer genomics, DNA repair, RNA biology, and drug development to find new and less toxic treatments for childhood cancers.

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

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


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Stand Up to Cancer: Alexander J. R. Bishop, DPhil to Lead One of Three Trans-Atlantic Teams to Study Hard-to-Treat Childhood Cancers
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Nature Communications: Interaction between SNAI2 and MYOD enhances oncogenesis and suppresses differentiation in Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma (Ignatius, Houghton, Chen)
Zheng, Siyuan, PhD
Nature Communications: Integrated Analysis of Telomerase Enzymatic Activity unravels an Association with Cancer Stemness and Proliferation (Zheng Lab)
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Argonne National Laboratory: Hide and seek: Understanding how COVID-19 evades detection in a human cell (Gupta)

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  • EurekAlert: Researchers (Houghton & Kurmasheva part of team who) identify surface protein as a new osteosarcoma therapeutic target for antibody-drug conjugates

  • Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies: Bloom syndrome in a Mexican-American family with rhabdomyosarcoma: evidence of a Mexican founder mutation (Bishop, Chen, Tomlinson)

  • APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED: Greehey CCRI Donald G McEwen, Memorial Summer 2021 Undergraduate Research Program


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Events


    • Apr
      30

      Greehey CCRI ZOOMinar Series Presents: Vladimir Uversky, PhD, DSc– Univ of South Florida

      Presentation title: "Unusual Biophysics and Strange Biology of Intrinsic Disorder"
    • May
      14

      Greehey CCRI ZOOMinar Series Presents: Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Dr. Stefan Pfister – Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg

      Presentation Title: "Next-Generation Pediatric Neurooncology”
    • May
      28

      Greehey CCRI ZOOMinar Series Presents: David C. Lyden, MD, PhD – Weill Cornell Medicine

      Presentation Title: “Tumor Exosome and Exomere Biomarkers for Early Cancer Detection”

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