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— The Versiti Blood Research Institute is getting $11.5 million from the nonprofit MACC Fund, supporting efforts to address childhood cancers.
The Milwaukee-based blood health organization today announced the financial committment from Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc., saying it will “accelerate high-impact research already underway” in pediadric leukemia and other areas.
Funding will be used for recruiting and retaining scientists, expanding capacity for translational research, funding existing clinical and laboratory studies and more. Versiti currently has four faculty-level researchers leading projects on pediadric leukemia, and plans to add up to two more within the coming year.
Meanwhile, the institute says it’s conducting two active clinical and translational studies and six active scientific studies, which collectively include 20 research staff. Within the past two years, its researchers have published 54 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Focus areas for Versiti researchers include precision cancer immunotherapies, efforts to “train” patients’ immune systems to fight off cancer, the clinical use of “natural killer cells” within the immune system, reducing toxicity for existing treatments, and using AI to improve therapies.
Becky Pinter, president and CEO of the MMAC Fund, says kids fighting cancer “deserve better” options for treatment.
“By expanding our support, we’re empowering researchers to move discoveries from the lab to life-changing treatments, faster, smarter, and with renewed hope for every child to thrive,” she said in a statement on the funding.
See the release below.
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