WEBINAR: Why Childhood Cancer Foundations Are Adopting The Venture Philantropy Approach

by Oncoheroes Biosciences

2 years ago
childhood cancer, Oncoheroes Biosciences

Venture philanthropy is a growing trend across many important social issues.

Oncoheroes Biosciences receives a second investment from The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation

by Oncoheroes Biosciences

2 years ago
Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation, Oncoheroes Biosciences, childhood cancer

In October 2019, The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation invested for the first time in Oncoheroes Biosciences, a biotech company advancing new therapies for childhood cancer. The B+ Foundation was the fir...

Oncoheroes Biosciences And The Scott Carter Foundation Are Onboard To End Childhood Cancer

by Oncoheroes Biosciences

3 years ago
Childhood cancer, Scott Carter Foundation

Childhood cancer is considered a rare disease that accounts for about 1% of all U.S. cancer diagnoses. Because of improved tumor detection and treatment advances in recent decades, 84% of children wit...

SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital, among the best centers in the world for the treatment of neuroblastoma

by Fundació Sant Joan de Déu

3 years ago
childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, SJD

The accumulated experience and the personalized care offered, places Sant Joan de Déu among the best international centres for the treatment of this childhood cancer

Oncoheroes Biosciences And Swifty Foundation United Toward New Cures

by Oncoheroes Biosciences

3 years ago
Childhood cancer, Swifty Foundation, Oncoheroes Biosciences

Childhood cancer is considered a rare disease that accounts for about 1% of all U.S cancers.

MEET A HERO: Grant, 2 year old at diagnosis

by Oncoheroes Biosciences

3 years ago
childhood cancer, cancer foundation, chemotherapy

"Upside down," said Grant looking at himself in the mirror and pointing at his Spiderman T-shirt while standing up on a hospital bed. Grant Gossling was 2 years old when he was diagnosed with high-ris...

Oncoheroes Joins the Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2)

by Oncoheroes Biosciences

4 years ago
pediatric oncology, Childhood Cancer, CAC2, drugs

Oncoheroes today announced its organizational membership into the Coalition Against Childhood Cancer, known as CAC2, a collaborative network of organizations and individuals supporting and servicing t...

CNIO researchers granted EU funds to study new treatment for childhood cancer

by CNIO - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas

4 years ago
childhood cancer, SETD8 inhibitors, TARGETSET, epigenetic, neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma

Óscar Fernández-Capetillo, Head of the Genomic Instability Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has just received the European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Gran...

A study proposes a new approach for the identification of a syndrome of predisposition to childhood cancer

by Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge

4 years ago
inherited syndrome, DNA, genomic sequencing, childhood cancer

Patients with this syndrome have more mutations in the microsatellite regions of the genome. The detection of these mutations improves the diagnosis and therapeutic management of patients.

Bioengineering contributes to new advances against childhood cancer

by IBEC - Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

4 years ago
neuroblastoma, bioengineering, childhood cancer

IBEC contributes to elucidate how the rigidity of the tumor extracellular matrix affects the aggressiveness of neuroblastoma, a cancerous tumor that affects mainly children. This opens the door to gen...