Dr. Kelly Bailey from the Mayo Clinic with Ally Hawkins, PhD from the ALSF Data Lab at AACR 2026! We’re proud to collaborate with Dr. Bailey’s team on the Sean Karl cohort, working to better understand therapeutic vulnerabilities in Ewing sarcoma. Our team has contributed by developing a reproducible workflow to generate a harmonized dataset for consistent analyses, which will be released and openly licensed for others’ use. The generated data will be shared on the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas (ScPCA) Portal. Come meet Dr. Hawkins at our poster today to learn more about the ScPCA Portal! Poster: Improving the utility of the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas through updated cell type annotations, CNV inference, and visualization tools 📅 Today! April 20 | 2-5 PM 📍 Section 31 | Board 13

🔬 FREE WEBINAR 12/17! Join us for the seminar "Newborn Screening for Cancer Risk: Has the Time (Finally) Come" from Dr. Lisa Diller, pediatric oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Diller's lecture will have three learning objectives: 🍋 Understand the potential benefit of early identification of children at-risk for cancer due to genetic predisposition. 🍋 Understand the pitfalls and risks of genetic testing for childhood cancer. 🍋 Understand how retinoblastoma outcomes might be changed if RB1 genetic risk testing were included in newborn screening. Register here> alexslemonade.org/childhood-…

Save the date and SHARE: Giving Tuesday is December 2! 🎗️ We know research works. That's why this year we are asking you to help us reach our goal of raising $100,000 for kids with cancer on #GivingTuesday. Research grants give scientists the time to discover cures for kids with cancer. Clinical trials give kids the chance to get their cures. This is where your donation is going: to ensure that funding doesn’t stop. By donating to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation on this day, you will get us closer to $100,000, and closer to giving kids their cures.💛

Dr. Maud Plaschka calls the OpenScPCA "game changing" for the research community. Researchers who contribute to the Data Lab's OpenScPCA may become eligible for a grant! These grants offer unique ways to get involved with the project for researchers with experience analyzing single-cell RNA-Seq data and annotating cell types. Learn more about how to get started on GitHub: tinyurl.com/4xdtvpfh

Attention childhood cancer researchers!🔬 Applications are now open for 'A' Award Grants and R Accelerator Grants funded by ALSF. If you or someone you know is working in the pediatric cancer research space, our grant programs could provide the funding you need to find the next scientific breakthrough for kids with cancer! Learn more> alexslemonade.org/researcher…

Give now, right now, and ALDI will match your Giving Tuesday donation for kids with cancer: alexslemonade.org/giving-tue…🎗️ "If you give to support (ALSF), your money is going to support the best possible research." "If you're doing pediatric cancer research, you come to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. It's just an incredible organization. We couldn't do our work without this kind of support." These are just some words from childhood cancer researchers who have received ALSF research grants. These grantees are on the front lines finding cures for kids with cancer- and they could not do it without generous support from donors like you. Donate today on Giving Tuesday at the link above and join the movement to cure childhood cancer during the season of giving

🔬 One week from today! Join us for a free seminar from Dr. Carl Koschmann as part of the Childhood Cancer Speaker Series: alexslemonade.org/childhood-… Dr. Koschmann will present his talk "Therapeutic Targeting and Correlate Tracking of H3K27M-Mutant Diffuse Midline Gliomas" on Wednesday, 9/11 from 12-1 pm. Learn more and register at the link above!

Today we remember our founder Alex Scott. She lives on 20 years later, in the hope she left for other children with cancer and in the mission of the Foundation she started. Our Foundation isn’t just a tribute to Alex; it is a continuation of everything she fought and worked for her entire life. Please consider donating today in honor of Alex's legacy> alexslemonade.org/mypage/138…

Phone lines are open-The CBS Philadelphia Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope Telethon is live!📞✨ Tune in today to hear powerful stories from childhood cancer families, and donate to help find cures for the cancers they face. We'll have your favorite @CBSPhiladelphia personalities and highlights from the Emmy award-winning documentary, Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope. You can view the telethon on CBS Philadelphia or by streaming it on CBSPhiladelphia.com at 9 am, 3 pm and 7 pm. Thank you for standing with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation in the fight against childhood cancer! #CBSStandForHope

The Childhood Cancer Data Lab represented us at the AACR conference 2024! Four ALSF funded researchers were selected as Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research! Congratulations to Dr. John Maris, Dr. David Malkin, Dr. Matthew Meyerson, and Dr. Nathanael Gray.

ALSF is excited to be at #aacr2024! If you're here, visit booth 3755: Our @CancerDataLab is announcing a brand NEW collaborative project The Data Lab's sharing a poster on Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas; ccdatalab.org/scpca Sharing grant opportunities

🔬We are now accepting applications for 'A' Award grants! Tag an early career scientist that you think will have interest!>alexslemonade.org/researcher… ALSF seeks game-changing proposals to substantially advance childhood cancer treatments and cures.

Our Childhood Cancer Data Lab will be attending the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in San Diego, CA. We are excited to talk about all things ScPCA and more! Stop by our booth 3755 on April 7-10. ccdatalab.org/blog/alexs-lem…

SPEAKER SERIES RETURNS (3/20): The pivotal role of clinician-scientists and academic clinical trials in drug development for childhood cancer, with Dr. Elizabeth Fox. Register> alexslemonade.org/childhood-… This lecture will have three objectives: 🍋 Frame the challenges of clinical drug development for children with cancer. 🍋Discuss examples of successes and learnings in drug development. 🍋 Considerations for meeting the unmet needs of childhood cancer.

Learn from leading minds in childhood cancer research on our new Youtube channel! Introducing the Pediatric Oncology Knowledge Center: youtube.com/@PediatricOncolo… Tune in for long-form presentations and short sound bytes on cutting-edge research topics related to pediatric cancer.

On January 18, we remember our founder and celebrate her belief that everyone can make a difference in the fight against childhood cancer. Read a special message @lemonadeliz shared in honor of Alex's 28th birthday: alexslemonade.org/blog/eight…

Young Investigator, RUNX1 RARE and Crazy 8 Predisposition grant applications are available for childhood cancer researchers. Deadlines are approaching! Learn more about each grant here> alexslemonade.org/researcher…

NEXT WEDNESDAY (11/8): Risk Factors for Pediatric Brain Tumor Formation and Growth with Dr. David Gutmann, MD, PhD Register for this free virtual lecture: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…

🚨Grant Applications for the Crazy 8 Initiative Now Accepted🚨 ALSF is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for the 2024 Crazy 8 Initiative Award. In 2024, the Initiative will focus on Childhood Cancer Predisposition and Prevention. Learn more>alexslemonade.org/crazy-8-in…

Happening at noon: Understanding Treatment Resistance and Relapse in ALL through Single Cell Studies with Dr. Kara Lynn Davis. Register for the virtual event here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…