Faculty awarded over $8 million for research towards cancer and blood disorders

Texas Children’s Cancer & Hematology Center research faculty were awarded over $8M to develop new, targeted therapies for pediatric cancers, to enhance our understanding of hematologic disorders, and to improve the quality of life for our young patients.

• Eveline Barbieri, MD, PhD
  National Institutes of Health Gabriella Millier Kids First Pediatric Research Program, R01
  Rewired Metabolism and Immunosuppression in Mycn-Driven Neuroblastoma
• Alison A. Bertuch, MD, PhD
  United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (Department of Defense)
  Development of Lead Compounds that Promote Telomere Elongation to Prevent and Treat Bone Marrow Failure in the Telomere Biology Disorders
• Clay T. Cohen, MD
  American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network (ATHN Transcends)
  A Natural History Cohort Study of the Safety, Effectiveness and Practice of Treatment in People with Non-Neoplastic Hematologic Disorders
• Andras A. Heczey, MD
  Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation
  R Accelerated Award Grant: Synthetic Gene Expression Regulator Switches (SYNGERS) Expressed in CAR T Cells to Cure Children with Solid Tumors
• Terzah M. Horton, MD, PhD
  The Jeffrey Pride Foundation/Children’s Oncology Group
  Using Proteomics in B-ALL to Optimize Therapy Selection and Discover Therapy Targets
• Philip J. Lupo, PhD, MPH
  National Institutes of Health, U01
  (MYF) Down Syndrome Early Childhood Omics, Deep Phenotyping, and Epidemiology in Texas: DECODE IT Cohort
• Robin Parihar, MD, PhD
  Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, Reach Grant
  Translating Sarcoma Antigen-Directed Co-Stimulatory NK Cells to the Clinic
• Rayne Rouce, MD
  Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
  Novel CD7 CAR T-Cells for Refractory T-Cell Malignancies Affecting Pediatric and AYA Patients
• Sarah E. Sartain, MD
  Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, Innovation Grant
  The Role of Tissue Kallikrein 1 in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy
• Venée N. Tubman, MD, MMSc
  American Society of Hematology Research Collaborative, SCD Research Network Annual Grant Renewal