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Immuno-Oncology News
1/6/2015
Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a nonprofit organization, has awarded the Bio-therapeutics Impact Award to three individuals, including Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Cancer Center researcher, Dr. Leonid Metelitsa.
Dr. Metelitsa, who is also a fellow of the pediatric cancer program of the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor, has received a total of $1.5 million, which will fund a 3 year research on a novel cancer immunotherapy for the treatment of neuroblastoma, the most usual extracranial solid cancer during childhood.
This type of tumor is classified as neuroendocrine and derives from neural crest elements of the sympathetic nervous system. Usually it originates in one of the adrenal glands, but it can also arise in nerve tissues from the neck, chest, abdomen or pelvis.
