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Research Grants
Pediatric Cancer Research Grants ATLANTA – Curing Kids’ Cancer awarded the 2009 Killian Owen Research Grant to the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. $275,000 was donated to the Aflac Cancer Center’s Clinical Research Office in memory of Killian Owen, who lost his battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in 2003 at the age of nine after a four year battle with the disease. Killian is the inspiration for the charity Curing Kids’ Cancer. “The Aflac Cancer Center of Children’s pediatric cancer research programs have expanded rapidly in recent years, and the hospital is making great strides in moving treatments from the lab to the bedside,” said Grainne Owen, founder of Curing Kids’ Cancer. “We hope our funding will help create more effective, less toxic treatments which will eventually replace traditional chemotherapy and turn childhood cancer from a killer disease into a curable one.” A $15,000 grant was awarded to Children's Medical Center/University of Texast in Dallas is for their groundbreaking research into Ewings Sarcoma. Other recipients include Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, N.C. and Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital, Columbia, S.C. Curing Kids’ Cancer has two national grassroots fundraising programs – Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer and Teachers Curing Kids’ Cancer. Both programs urge parents and children to donate money to pediatric cancer research in the name of their coach or teacher rather than buying them traditional gifts. Details of the programs are available at www.curingkidscancer.org. The Killian Owen Research Grant is awarded annually to fund promising research for childhood cancer, in particular to help make cutting edge drugs/treatments available throughout a network of hospitals with programs in pediatric cancer. Killian, who died from leukemia in 2003 at age nine, inspired his parents – Clay and Grainne Owen – to found the charity Curing Kids’ Cancer.
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