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We are a nonprofit biotech lab on a mission to make childhood cancer universally survivable. Every year, the FDA approves on average 12 drugs to treat adult cancer, but has only approved 6 drugs to treat childhood cancer since 1978. We believe it’s time to do better. 

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Science Nonfiction: Samuel, Hepatoblastoma & Quail Assays

Samuel Rasmussen October 3, 2018

I am working towards a cure for hepatoblastoma by testing medicines on a quail assay I have been developing. My work focuses on a quail assay used to test drugs on hepatoblastoma. The first trial in building the quail assay is to have a reliable way to prepare the eggs. The original method required a great deal of dexterity and was typically performed by one our more skilled lab members with surgical experience. The device I built allows anyone to prepare the eggs after just one training session. Next, I had to get the tumors

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In the Press

Scientists Tackle Lethal Childhood Brain Cancer

By Esther Landhuis - Scientific American
In precision medicine era, legacy gifts of patient brain tissue reveal disease mechanisms and new therapeutic approaches.

Beaverton's Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute tackles deadliest child cancers

By Eric Apalategui - Beaverton Valley Times
Beyond an unmarked door into what looks like a shabby old warehouse in Old Town Beaverton, white-coated scientists are working to find ways to treat cancers that kill almost every child they afflict.

Current Research Projects

The "Alexa" Project
The goal of The Alexa Project is to find new treatments to move towards clinical trials for all children affected with the neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) associated brain tumors called juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma (JPA).
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Big Data Analytics of a massive drug screen by Cell of Origin
We have partnered with a major pharmaceutical company to conduct an unprecedented screen of more than 640,000 compounds that, when combined, could offer new treatments for pediatric cancers that haven’t seen progress in decades.
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The Functional Genomics of Wilms’ Tumor
Our Wilms’ tumor studies are led by Andy Woods, dad to Stellablue Woods, who was diagnosed with anaplastic Wilms’ tumor when she was just 4 years old. Andy brings the motivation of an impassioned father to our study, and is inspired by his personal experience with pediatric cancer to bring about better treatment options for children like his daughter.
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Epigenetic Therapy to Overcome Checkpoint Adaptation in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Our team has identified a cancer-causing gene (also known as an oncogene) called Pax3:Foxo1 that causes current treatments to fail. Remarkably, Pax3:Foxo1 can silenced by entinostat, a drug recently granted FDA breakthrough designation for breast cancer.
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Be a Dog’s Best Friend, Help a Child
To make it better for children & young adults with osteosarcoma, cc-TDI is exploring the types of non-chemotherapy drugs that re-program osteosarcoma tumor cells to stop growing – or cease to exist.
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Next Steps in the Rapid Preclinical Development of a Targeted Therapy Combination for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)
Remarkably, this is the first time that a group of basic and translational scientists and physicians from institutions throughout North America and Europe have come together as a consortium to focus on a bench-to-bedside approach to rationally target therapy for children with DIPG.
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A dedicated research team

Our research team is exploring and testing state-of-the-art treatment options for the most urgent issues facing children with cancer. 

Working in our own freestanding research institution allows us to act swiftly and nimbly to achieve results—bringing cost control, speed, purpose, and focus to translate effective treatments into the clinic. To get there, we perform basic science and translational research in our industrial modern lab site (a paint factory remodeled by Nike as an off-site creative space), adjacent to the Silicon Forest in Oregon.

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