What kind of research does the St. Baldricks Foundation fund?
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has made more than 200 grants totaling over $41 million for childhood cancer research since 2005, its first year as a foundation. In 2009 alone, over $12 million was funded – more than by any other foundation making grants for research to cure childhood cancers. To see the funding types, current recipients, and where they are located, click the links to the left. Just as the St. Baldrick’s community bands together to raise funds, the childhood cancer research community works together to find cures. In fact, childhood cancer led the way in creating “cooperative research groups” and as a result, children who had almost no chance of survival fifty years ago now have a survival rate of over 80%. How we wish that statistic applied to all kids with cancer! Some types of the disease remain extremely hard to cure, and many treatments come with a steep price in life-long damage or risk to bodies and minds. To cure even the most difficult cancers and improve the qua
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has made more than 250 grants totaling over $55 million for childhood cancer research since 2005, its first year as a foundation. In 2010 alone, over $12.8 million was funded – more than by any other foundation making grants for research to cure childhood cancers. More grants will be distributed in the fall. To see the funding types, current recipients, where they are located, and areas of research focus click the links to the left. Just as the St. Baldrick’s community bands together to raise funds, the childhood cancer research community works together to find cures. In fact, childhood cancer led the way in creating “cooperative research groups” and as a result, children who had almost no chance of survival fifty years ago now have a survival rate of over 80%. How we wish that statistic applied to all kids with cancer! Some types of the disease remain extremely hard to cure, and many treatments come with a steep price in life-long damage or risk to bodies
