Where the Money Goes

Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program

The Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program is designed for undergraduate, graduate and medical students who have an interest in pediatric oncology research and would like to experience the field first hand. Students train with a pediatric oncology research mentor. Students may join a research project underway in a mentor’s lab or begin an original investigation with the mentor.

View all ALSF funded projects here.

Recipient Institution Type of Cancer Year
Amjad Shaikh Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Leukemia 2017
Laurence Okeke The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Glioma 2017
Nathan Sunada University of Hawaii at Hilo Neuroblastoma 2017
Louis Perkins Baylor College of Medicine General Pediatric Cancer 2017
John Szigety Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) 2017
Kevin Pineault The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Solid and Bone Cancers 2017
Nikit Venishetty University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Ewing Sarcoma 2017
Keerthana Sankar University of California San Francisco Glioma 2017
Emily Crawford Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Neuroblastoma 2017
Melanie Schweitzer Weill Cornell Medical College Brain Tumors 2017

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