{"id":6362,"date":"2019-02-01T06:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:41:54","slug":"cc-tdi-research-series-i-dipg-tumor-cell-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"CC-TDI Research Series I: DIPG Tumor Cell Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Charles Keller, Scientific Director of the Children&#8217;s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, joins us with Dr. Anju Karki, post-doctoral fellow and DIPG Tumor Cell Hotel project leader describe this creative design to affect a real solution for children diagnosed with arguably the deadliest pediatric brain cancer, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.  Based on the concept of the humorous commercial in1978, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z4c2gadmytg\"> Black Flag Roach Motel<\/a>, where, &#8220;roaches check-in but they don&#8217;t check out,&#8221; the project is designed to attract and then disempower the tumor cells with a specially engineered &#8220;film&#8221; surgically implanted in a high-risk procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CCTR1-31-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CCTR1-31-19.jpg 720w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CCTR1-31-19-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CCTR1-31-19-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCTR1-31-19\">link\u00a0to\u00a0podcast<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As with all other projects in the 2019 CCTR Research Series, the DIPG Tumor Cell Hotel is funded by a parent-led organization, and in this case, Storm the Heavens Fund of Philadelphia, PA. The 2nd half of the broadcast features Executive Director Mina Caroll who lost her 8-year-old daughter Philomena to DIPG in 2016, in a frank discussion about the unconscionable chronic lack of research funding and activity for childhood cancers, with DIPG treatment options seeing no meaningful change since Neil Armstrong&#8217;s daughter Karen died of DIPG in 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Charles Keller, Scientific Director of the Children&#8217;s Cancer Therapy Development Institute, joins us with Dr. Anju Karki, post-doctoral fellow and DIPG Tumor Cell Hotel project leader describe this creative design to affect a real solution for children diagnosed with arguably the deadliest pediatric brain cancer, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=6362\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[407,1690,477,9,1685,1687,563,1691,306,1688,1692,1686,1689],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cc-tdi","tag-cctr-2019-research-series","tag-childrens-cancer-therapy-development-institute","tag-dipg","tag-dipg-tumor-cell-hotel","tag-dr-anju-karki","tag-dr-charles-keller","tag-mina-caroll","tag-neil-armstrong","tag-philadelphia-pa","tag-philomena","tag-roach-motel","tag-storm-the-heavens-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}