Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

New drugs are desperately needed for the treatment of pediatric leukemia. Leukemia is one of the most common and devastating cancers that can occur in children. While many infants and children diagnosed with acute leukemia can have durable remissions and even cures, the side effects of chemotherapy often lead to enduring harm to patients' health. Our research seeks to develop novel drugs for pediatric leukemia using a host of powerful genetic technologies, most notably, an approach called RNA interference screening.