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Curing Kids' Cancer Donates $40,000 to University of Maryland Research Project
ATLANTA – Aug 2, 2010 – Curing Kids’ Cancer today awarded a $40,000 grant to ground-breaking pediatric cancer research being conducted at the University of Maryland.
The research is being conducted under the direction of Dr. Xiaochun Chen and Professor Curt Civin, and involves recently discovered “microRNAs,” tiny snippets of RNA (ribonucleic acid) that until recently were thought of merely as “molecular sawdust.”
In fact, Dr. Civin’s research shows that by replacing or increasing the microRNAs in leukemia cells they can be prevented from reproducing and eventually they die off. In their exciting research to be supported by Curing Kids’ Cancer, they propose to use “high-throughput screening” techniques to identify chemicals that can raise the levels of these two microRNAs in human leukemia cells. They hope that such chemicals will serve as new anti-leukemia medicines, and that this might provide a new standard in cancer therapies. “Dr. Civin and Dr. Chen are pioneers in pediatric cancer research,” said Grainne Owen, founder of Curing Kids’ Cancer. “This cutting-edge research will bring us closer to our mission of finding new cures for pediatric cancers in our lifetime.” Read more
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