St. Baldrick’s Foundation Awards $50,000 Grant to Expand Pediatric Cancer Clinical Trials at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital

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K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which will enable the expansion of pediatric clinical trials. The infrastructure grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation will be used to hire a clinical research assistant which will allow the offering of pediatric cancer trials to more than double at the Children’s Hospital.

With this generous funding from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, five new pediatric cancer clinical trials have the potential to open in 2024. The grant is part of $1.1 million in infrastructure awards made by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation in 15 states to advance pediatric enrollment in cancer clinical trials. The funding is designed to support these necessary roles to ensure more patients get treated through a clinical trial – often their best hope for a cure. The health care professionals who make those clinical trials happen are “unsung heroes,” according to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest charity funder of childhood cancer research grants.

The pediatric cancer program at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital has expanded under the leadership of Dr. Scerbo. The program became the first affiliate of The Children's Oncology Group, a clinical trials cooperative supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the world's largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research.

Dr. Scerbo and her team at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, in conjunction with the team at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital  are ranked in the top 50 for Pediatric Cancer Care according to U.S. News and World Report.