The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has announced its 2018 summer grant recipients, including seven from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers.
2018 Recipients
- Nmazou Ozuah, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, received an international scholar grant for $330,000 to support his project studying biologic predictors in Hodgkin lymphoma in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Peter Wasswa, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, was awarded the $115,000 extended international scholar grant to pursue research looking at the biologic and clinical profiling of childhood hematologic malignancies.
- Michele Redell, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Oncology, received a research grant for $96,012 to help fund her research in chemotherapy resistance through stroma-induced SYK in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia.
- Kimberly Raghubar, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics-Psychology, received a $49,858 supportive care research grant to aid in the development of an online platform for cognitive surveillance in pediatric brain tumors.
- Eveline Barbieri, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics-Hematology and Oncology, received a scholar grant for $111,616 to support her research exploring novel differentiating therapies for high-risk neuroblastoma.
- Will Parsons, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine and Co-Director of the Brain Tumor and Cancer Genetics ad Genomics Programs at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers, and Carl Allen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine and Co-Director of the Lymphoma and Histiocytosis Programs at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers, each received a $150,000 innovation award. ■
