Bryanna’s Love was founded in honor of Bryanna Kitchen, who was diagnosed with Early T-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ETP-ALL) only 3 weeks after her 9th birthday. One of the few things that gave her the strength to smile during this time was the many stuffed animals and the blanket…
Noah Berlow received his PhD in electrical engineering following undergraduate studies in electrical engineering, computer science, and mathematics. His graduate work grew into a long-term collaboration with Dr. Charles Keller, then at Oregon Health & Sciences University. Upon graduating, he joined the non-profit mission-based biotech start-up, the Children’s Cancer Therapy…
jackangel 12 December, 2019 Uncategorized click pic for podcast “After symptoms that appeared suddenly and two visits to the pediatrician, Luke Morin was taken to the Emergency Department at Children’s Hospital Colorado. On April 8, 2018, Luke’s family received devastating news that there was an inoperable and very aggressive tumor…
Sara’s Cure is a grassroots, race-against-time campaign focused on funding critical research to find a cure for Clear Cell Sarcoma. Lissett Bickford, now with Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, a non-profit biotech company in Beaverton Oregon dedicated to eradicating childhood cancer, earned her PhD in Bioengineering at Rice University in…
According the the Genomics Institute, 84% of dog DNA has human counterparts, so we suffer many of the same diseases, including most cancers. Dogs have a higher incidence of certain tumors which are considered rare in children. By studying these tumor types in dogs, we can learn a great deal…
Denver CO–Morgan Adams Foundation co-founder Joan Slaughter joins us to share this organization’s 20 year history of advancing the clinical trial process for pediatric cancer in the medical research system. Her daughter Morgan had been diagnosed at 5 years old with GBM in 1997, surviving 11 months past the diagnosis…
After months of frustrating ER visits for high fevers, Adelaide ‘Addie’ was diagnosed in November 2015 with Hepatoblastoma, a rare pediatric liver cancer; it was just four days before her 2nd birthday. Addie fought a fast-spreading disease with grace; she shared her contagious smile and joyous spirit with everyone she…
From a State Tax Measure bringing needed funds to pediatric cancer research, to leading in the country-wide movement for a DIPG Awareness Day, Pennsylvania is leading in authentic grassroots advocacy for children with cancer and their families. Bill Kohler is a highly respected and decorated veteran of the Iraq war,…
Barbara Saltzman joins us from Palos Verdes CA, home of The Jester & Pharley™ Phund, the charity that grew out of her late son David’s best-selling children’s book, “The Jester Has Lost His Jingle.” David created The Jester as his senior project at Yale before his death from cancer in…
We follow-up and finish our conversation with Randy Hinton, father to Hayley who was diagnosed with DIPG (brainstem glioma-diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma) and perished to that disease some 13 years ago, regarding causes and conditions that remains the burden of parents to discover in their never-ending hunt for answers. We…
