Rein in Sarcoma proudly announces a $150,000 research grant approved by the Rein in Sarcoma Board on January 27, 2020. This brings the cumulative research funding by Rein in Sarcoma to $2 million since the organization’s founding in 2001. This grant will fund the following three exciting University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center projects: “eBAT…
By Miranda Mead Beau Webber, a 2018 RIS research grant recipient, is an Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, as well as Faculty Member of the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and Stem Cell Institute. While getting his PhD in stem-cell biology and genetic engineering at the University of Minnesota,…
Rein in Sarcoma proudly announces a $150,000 research grant approved by the Rein in Sarcoma Board in January, 2019. This grant will fund the following three exciting University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center projects: “MYOG Promoter-Controlled Oncolytic Adenovirus to Treat PAX3-FOXO1-Positive Rhabdomyosarcoma” | $50,000 Principle Investigator: Masato Yamamoto, MD, PhD Co-Investigator: H Yoshida, MD, PhD…
Sarcoma cancers are rare cancers with all too few organizations working to support sarcoma patients, educate the public and the medical community and to fund research for cures. There are less than ten broad based sarcoma organizations (such as Rein in Sarcoma) and several dozen organizations supporting specific sarcoma sub-types (such as Osteosarcoma, Rhadosarcoma or…
“Predicting relapse and response to chemotherapy in sarcoma.” | $49,000 Principal Investigator: Amy Skubitz, PhD – Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, University of Minnesota Summary: Predicting the behavior of a sarcoma tumor in a patient is of critical importance in their care. When a primary tumor is…
Rein in Sarcoma Board member and Research Committee Chair, Dr. Larry Seymour made a major announcement at our Fall Fundraiser in Minneapolis of the 2017 awarding of $65,000 in new sarcoma research grants to Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic and SARC in Michigan. The evening also included a new commitment to…
