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A laboratory based out of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock establishes and banks cell lines (tumor cells growing in the test tube) and patient-derived xenografts (tumors from patients grown in special mice) from childhood cancers.
These laboratory models of childhood cancer are invaluable to investigators for studying cancer biology and for testing new therapies in the laboratory.
The repository provides cell lines and xenografts to researchers across the USA and the world (19 countries) and has become the de facto worldwide repository for such childhood cancer models. This repository is supported by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, which enables it to continue to receive samples from The Children's Oncology Group (COG), to establish new laboratory models of childhood cancer, and to make those models available to investigators world-wide.
Last year our team logged 6,289 miles and raised $8,770! That's nearly twice the amount we raised in 2016! We hope to surpass our totals from last year.
As part of the medical student's TTUHSC Oncology Interest Group initiative, medical students will be participating and helping to fundraise for the Cancer Center lab. The medical students are excited and eager to take part in this effort and look forward to meeting the Cellbuster’s fundraising goal.
Here is some local Lubbock coverage from last year detailing the laboratory's research and fundraising efforts.
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For more information about the repository, please visit: cogcell.org
