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Our team is a combined local effort of Texas Tech Physicians (pedi oncology), UMC and Covenant Children's Pediatric Oncology clinics, and the TTUHSC lab biorepository. This is a laboratory based out of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock that establishes and banks cell lines (tumor cells growing in a test tube) & patient-derived xenografts (tumors from patients grown in special mice) from childhood cancers.
These lab models of childhood cancer are invaluable to investigators for studying cancer biology & 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 CellBusters teamed up with our local pediatric clinics at UMC and Covenant Children's with TTUHSC Physicians and their team: Lubbock Pediatric Cancer Walk and we logged 7,634 miles and raised over $25,000! That's more than we've raised in previous years! 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. Our entire team is excited & eager to take part in this effort and look forward to meeting our fundraising goal.
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For more information about the repository, please visit: cogcell.org
