Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia received $1 million from the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, an organization that has been raising funds for research since 1970 to support doctors and hospitals in an effort to eradicate childhood cancer.
The grant will help to fund a planned first-in-human phase 1 clinical trial led by Sarah K. Tasian, MD, which will use a new immunotherapy to target the FLT3 receptor protein in high-risk pediatric leukemias.
The Cancer Immunotherapy Program at CHOP has revolutionized the care and the cure of children with relapsed/refractory B-cell ALL via its pioneering investigation of CD19-targeted killer T cells (CART19) that led to first-in-child FDA approval of the tisagenlecleucel cell therapy product in 2017. Read more.
