Baldrick's Foundation Grants a Total of $455,582 to The Children's Hospital of... Baldrick's Foundation Grants a Total of $455,582 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Baldrick's Foundation, a volunteer-driven charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, has awarded two research grants to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Vandana Batra, M.D.,received a $205,582 Fellow award and Jill Ginsberg, M.D., will lead a study funded by a $250,000 Consortium Research Grant.

Worldwide, more than 160,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year, and it remains the leading cause of death by disease among children in the United States. With only 4 percent of all federal cancer research funding dedicated to pediatric cancer research, St. Vandana Batra, pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Baldrick's Foundation for enabling us to expand our program into a model for other children's hospitals," said Jill P. Ginsberg M.D., a pediatric oncologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the grant's principal investigator.

These grants are part of more than $19.6 million in new grants awarded by the St. All funding applications were peer-reviewed by leading pediatric cancer researchers who volunteer their time and expertise and make funding recommendations to the St.

About the Cancer Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has one of the largest pediatric cancer programs in the United States. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. The Foundation funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. Baldrick's funds are granted to some of the most brilliant childhood cancer research experts in the world and to younger professionals who will be the experts of tomorrow. Baldrick's has funded more than $76 million in childhood cancer research.

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