Engineering Forward Initiative for Childhood Cancer Therapies: $1,500,000

This multi-disciplinary approach to accelerating discovery of therapies for childhood cancer is made possible by a joint effort of our scientific director Dr. Keller and our Board member, Sunit Rikhi, former VP of the Intel custom foundry. Together, our teams of biologists and engineers will maximize automation and the design of new devices and biomaterials that address challenges in the treatment of cancer as well as prevention of recurrence, ultimately improving outcomes for children with cancer.

Synthetic Human 2.1 — Empowering the Surgeon: $160,000 over one year

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancer of the soft tissues. Local control for rhabdomyosarcoma is an important clinical challenge, and recurrence at the tumor resection bed can be a gateway to progression and metastasis. Our project seeks to put the types of cutting edge, non-chemotherapy medicines used by internists into the hands of the surgeon for the purpose of preventing local recurrence at the earliest possible moment.

Engineering Forward Initiative for Childhood Cancer Therapies: $1,500,000

This multi-disciplinary approach to accelerating discovery of therapies for childhood cancer is made possible by a joint effort of our scientific director Dr. Keller and our Board member, Sunit Rikhi, former VP of the Intel custom foundry. Together, our teams of biologists and engineers will maximize automation and the design of new devices and biomaterials that address challenges in the treatment of cancer as well as prevention of recurrence, ultimately improving outcomes for children with cancer.

Synthetic Human 2.1 — Empowering the Surgeon: $160,000 over one year

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancer of the soft tissues. Local control for rhabdomyosarcoma is an important clinical challenge, and recurrence at the tumor resection bed can be a gateway to progression and metastasis. Our project seeks to put the types of cutting edge, non-chemotherapy medicines used by internists into the hands of the surgeon for the purpose of preventing local recurrence at the earliest possible moment.