A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers were part of a nationwide group that received a four-year $14.5 million grant Sunday to develop new treatments for high-risk childhood cancers.
The grant, funded by Stand Up to Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research, will provide UW-Madison researchers with $340,000 a year for four years.
Current UW-Madison research focuses on possible treatments, including clinical trials testing immunotherapy, a treatment caused by improving or suppressing the immune system.
Other researchers who were awarded grant money include those at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Washington, Baylor University, University of Vancouver, the National Cancer Institute and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
The group of researchers is the first group focused on childhood cancer to be awarded with funding by the grant program.
