Why We Walk/Run/Ride

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 lab 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.

In 2020 our team raised over $16,000. In 2019, we logged 7,634 miles and raised over $25,000!  Despite limited participation with the 2020 pandemic, we raised more than some previous years!  We hope to surpass our goals every year. 

Our entire team--medical students, physicians, advanced providers, nurses, child life specialists, family and friends are excited & eager to take part in this effort and look forward to surpassing our fundraising goal.

Follow our Facebook group: Lubbock Pediatric Cancer Walk https://www.facebook.com/lubbockcurechildhoodcancer/

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For more information about the repository, please visit: cogcell.org