Visit to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Grant recipient & tour of Merlin Biotech.
Sam Azar, COO, KBC, Ian Henrich, PhD, Merlin Biotech, Randal Hyer, MD, Phd, MPH, CEO, Merlin Biotech, Margaret Guedes, CEO, KBC, Margaret Chou, PhD, Principal Investigator, CHOP, Ben Guedes, MD, CMO, KBC
Only 4% of the billions of dollars that are annually spent on cancer research and treatments are directed towards treating childhood cancer.
Research Programs
Clinical Trials Grant
Kids Beating Cancer is invested in pediatric research to bring the latest treatments and Clinical Trials available worldwide to the bedside to the children of Central Florida and beyond.
Kids Beating Cancer knows that in order for children to access the only hope for a cure for high-risk, recalcitrant pediatric cancers and those in relapse, we must fund innovative treatments through Clinical Trials. Kids Beating Cancer will fund Clinical Research Trials for individual children that need highly innovative and potentially impactful treatment with the maximum quality of life and least residual side effects.
Building the Blueprint for a Cure
Kids Beating Cancer is dedicated to ending childhood cancer. Only through research can cures be discovered and children’s lives be saved. We look for innovative, novel research projects that have the greatest potential for advancement into promising lifesaving Clinical Trials advancing new treatments for children with cancer and Leukemia. Kids Beating Cancer invests in Clinical Trials for high-risk children and support grants to strategically fund tiers of research, with the goal from Bench to Bedside. Kids Beating Cancer offers three categories of grants: Emerging Scientist, Science is the Cure, and the John Voight Memorial Leukemia Research Grant.
The statistics for children with cancer are astounding. In the United States, every year more than 17,000 children are diagnosed with cancer. Despite this, pediatric cancer research receives only 4 percent of total funding provided by the federal government. Since 1980, fewer than 10 drugs have been developed for use in children with cancer, as compared with the hundreds of drugs that have been created exclusively for adults. It will only be with the support from you, that researchers move closer to innovative and specialized cures to end childhood cancer.
Research Grants
The John Voight Memorial Leukemia Research Grant
The love for a child and the unspeakable sadness that comes from the loss of that child is the passion that started the most prestigious grant of Kids Beating Cancer. The John Voight Memorial Leukemia Research Grant is a tribute to the legacy of John Voight honoring his courageous battle with Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia (with Monosomy 7). At the young age of five, John was not able to understand the rare and highly fatal disease which took his life four years later after two bone marrow transplants failed. But it never stopped him from believing a cure could one day be found. Although John did not beat his disease, the battle has continued for others like John, who deserve a chance at a cure. John’s mother Margaret, immediately following the loss of her son, started Kids Beating Cancer vowing to see that research could change the outcome for the rare, high risk leukemias like John’s disease.
The John Voight Memorial Research Grant looks for projects with the highest potential for grand-breaking discoveries that will improve outcomes, advancing science to bring us closer to a cure AML. The John Voight Memorial Research Grant awards up to $300,000 grants for research conducted by MD, PhD, or MD/PhD or equivalent faculty at accredited academic institutions in the United States.
Science is the Cure Grant
The Science is the Cure Research Grant supports innovative, novel preclinical hypothesis-driven studies that are necessary in order to move into clinical trials with a focus on Blood Cancer, Immunotherapy and Solid Tumors with applications to pediatric cancer.
Kids Beating Cancer Science is the Cure Research Grant awards up to $200,000 conducted by MD, PhD, or MD/PhD or equivalent faculty at accredited academic institutions in the United States.
Emerging Scientist Grant
The Emerging Scientist Grant aims to develop graduate students into tomorrow’s scientific leaders by providing grants to students pursuing a future career in pediatric cancer research. The Emerging Scientist Grant is designed for graduate students pursuing a master’s degree, PhD, or medical degree.
The goal of the Emerging Scientist grant is to expose students to the field of pediatric cancer research while working on a research project. Students are required to work with a mentor to be eligible for this grant. Students may work on an ongoing research project conducted by their mentor or begin their own research project with their mentor. Students may pursue their research at their own institution or at another institution and the duration of their internship should last 8-10 weeks. Kids Beating Cancer awards up to five $10,000 grants on an annual basis.
$50 funds only ONE HOUR of research!
Kids Beating Cancer’s Scientific Advisory Board consists of esteemed pediatric oncology and scientific faculty from institutions across the United States. Each of the Scientific Advisory Board members are dedicated to improving the outcome of children with cancer, and as members of the Board, they certify that our research grants applicants are as impactful as possible by selecting to fund the best research projects.
The Kids Beating Cancer’s Scientific Advisory Board oversees the grant review process, recommends the scientific priorities and policies, while guiding new innovative research project areas. The Scientific Advisory Board continually supports in countless other ways, the passion that started Kids Beating Cancer, to bring live saving progress in treatments with the goal we all have, cures for children with cancer.
LEARN MORE about the research projects Kids Beating Cancer is currently funding.
NAME A RESEARCH GRANT OR CLINICAL TRIAL
Be a part of the Science Behind the Cure and name a Research Grant or Clinical Trial. For more information on the Kids Beating Cancer Research Programs, building a blueprint for a cure, please contact Sam@kidsbeatingcancer.com or call 407-894-2888.
