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January 6, 2025
ORIGINAL POSTING BY: Keith Desserich | January 6, 2025 Thanks to your incredible support, The Cure Starts Now, and the DIPG/DMG Collaborative have funded 17 grants during the 2024 grant cycle! That's 17 opportunities to make groundbreaking strides toward curing cancer. When we fund research, we’re not just fulfilling the dreams of our families and [...]December 5, 2024
Our study has the potential to provide potent and safe alternatives for treating pediatric brain tumor patients. In addition, the drugs identified in our study will improve the efficacy of radiation therapy. Therefore, medulloblastoma patients don’t have to be treated with high doses of radiation, which has life-altering side effects.
December 15, 2023
We share with great sadness that the inaugural director of the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute has passed. Below is the obituary originally published in the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology on November 18, 2023. She will always be remembered by those of us who were fortunate enough to work with her. It is an [...]November 20, 2023
Professor Peter J. Houghton from the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute discusses new approaches to pediatric cancer treatment, specifically for BRAF-mutant pediatric glioma. Low-grade glioma (LGG) is the most frequently diagnosed brain tumor in children, and although five and ten-year survival is quite high, this does not reveal the toxicity of current therapies. Conventional treatment includes intensive chemo-radiation [...]September 26, 2023
Posted on September 26, 2023 at 10:40 am.Shared by Eileen Teves Contacts: Monica Taylor, 210-450-8970, taylorm1@uthscsa.edu, Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – Children with cancer were joined by their families as they dipped their hands in finger paint and left their mark on a new Hyundai SUV at The University of Texas Health Science [...]September 19, 2023
Dr Peter J Houghton from Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute discusses the obstacles in developing new treatments for childhood cancers and new approaches in preclinical testing. In my previous article for Open Access Government, I focused on the challenges of developing novel therapies for children with glioma, the most prevalent brain cancer in children. Here, [...]September 8, 2023
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of this devastating disease and to support the children and families who are affected by it. Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children under the age of 14. Each year, about 15,000 children in the United States are diagnosed [...]August 2, 2023
Click on image below for full agenda _________________________________________________________ Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to understanding its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on [...]June 5, 2023
Project Title: Targeting the RNA modifying enzyme ALKBH5 in Medulloblastoma Principal Investigator: Panneerdoss Subbarayalu Co-Investigators: Manjeet Rao, PhD, Andrew Brenner, MD, PhD., Peter Houghton, PhD. Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health, NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain cancer in children. Despite the progress in treating medulloblastoma, the 5-year survival rate for high-risk [...]May 8, 2023
Ambassadors from left to right: Gina Baxter (SHP), Avani Ved (SON), Paulomi Modi (GSBS), Alejandra Garcia (LSOM) and Tyler Childs (SOD) Paulomi Modi is a second-year PhD student in the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. At 17, Modi moved to the United States on her own and later graduated [...]