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LOCAL RESEARCH > GLOBAL IMPACT

Beyond providing the ability to offer superior care to the children at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, the funds that we raise fund critical research​ in pursuit of a cure for childhood cancer. Penn State Health Children’s Hospital and Penn State College of Medicine are leaders in ​childhood cancer research​ and has been nationally recognized for its efforts, showing that our local research is having a truly global benefit.

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Jennifer Xavier

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HG Wang laboratory

Our Four Diamonds Pediatric Cancer Research Center has been research at American Association of Cancer Research-Advances in able to attract outstanding investigators, and all of the Pl’s are now funded by NIH, a major sign of national recognition.

Jennifer Xavier

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HG Wang laboratory

The HG Wang lab has developed new in vivo systems for understanding tumor metastasis, understanding the basic biology of autophagy in cancer, and identify potential novel drug targets. The research focus is broad and therefor creates a dynamic and exciting research environment.

Dr. Barbara Miller

Division Chief

Last year, we have given an opportunity to present results of our research at American Association of Cancer Research-Advances in Pediatric Cancer at Plenary Session as one of the top abstracts. Results of our research have been published in two top peer-reviewed journals in a field of leukemia – “Blood” and “Leukemia.”

Dr Barbara Miller

Division Chief

The money raised allows us to use novel approaches in laboratory based research to understand mechanisms that cause pediatric cancer and to find pathways that can be targeted with new drugs. It provides the infrastructure for early phase clinical trials to test how new drugs work and identify the best ways to use them together and with chemotherapy.

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