“What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say” by the Swifty Foundation
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Each month, the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium’s lab chat will highlight the stories and contributions of families, foundations, and researchers to find cures for pediatric brain tumors. If you would like to share your story as a guest blogger, please email moulderr@email.chop.edu. By Patti Gustafson, Swifty Foundation Wonder what to say to a…
David Bowie’s Piano Man Concert Benefits CBTTC Researchers
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Please enjoy this glimpse at the Collaborate for Cures concert which took place in Los Angeles on May 20, 2017. The CBTTC would like to thank Candy Hammeras and the Hammeras Group for organizing such an inspiring evening, entirely dedicated to the consortium and focusing on the importance of collaborative data sharing in medical research. We…
CAVATICA Announced as Finalist in 2017 Bio-IT World Best of Show Awards
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CAVATICA, the cloud-based platform created by the CBTTC for collaboratively accessing, sharing and analyzing pediatric cancer data CAVATICA, is a finalist in this year’s Bio-IT World Best of Show Awards, and is a contender for the People’s Choice Award. To read the entire article, please click HERE Spinning a Web Seven Bridges has been applying…
CBTTC Informatician Wins 2017 iFellows Doctoral Award
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Alex Felmeister, MS, a CBTTC bioinformatician and PhD student in the Information Studies program at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), recently received the 2017 iFellows Doctoral Fellowship award for his thesis tentatively titled “Advancing collaborative pediatric brain tumor research through temporally based predictive modeling of a large scale national clinical data research network”…
Dr. Adam Resnick Featured as First Precision FDA Expert of the Month – April 2017
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CBTTC Scientific Chair Dr. Adam Resnick, of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was featured as the first “Expert of the Month” by Precision FDA. Throughout the month of April, users can submit questions for Dr. Resnick on the Precision FDA website and learn more about the CBTTC’s mission to openly share genomic and pediatric cancer data…
Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC) Spring 2017 Workshop & Symposium
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CBTTC Scientific Co-chair Dr. Adam Resnick presented yesterday at the Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC) Spring 2017 Workshop & Symposium in Huntington Beach California. His presentation, titled “Innovation Through Collaboration: New Models for an Integrated Data-driven Healthcare Ecosystem,” outlined how improved collaboration, such as the clinical trials conducted within The Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium…
CBTTC Investigators Discover Molecule to Improve Treatment of DIPG
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CBTTC investigators from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, including CBTTC Scientific Chair Dr. Rishi Lulla and Dr. Amanda Saratsis of the CBTTC’s scientific committee, joined researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in discovering a molecule which stops the growth of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG). DIPG is an especially…
Dr. Javad Nazarian Named Scientific Director of Brain Tumor Institute of Children’s National Health System
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CBTTC Scientific Co-chair Javad Nazarian, PhD, MSC, has been named as the Scientific Director of the Brain Tumor Institute of the Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. Dr. Nazarian has been an active member of the Brain Tumor Institute since 2006. He has devoted his career to advancing the understanding of pediatric brain tumors…
CBTTC Researchers Awarded Top Prize for Cavatica Poster
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Bioinformaticians and researchers of The Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium received the top poster award for CAVATICA: Empowering Research with a Pediatric Genomic Cloud, at the Coalition Against Childhood Cancer (CAC2)’s From Bench to Bedside and Beyond Conference in October 2016 . Contributors to the project include Anthony Cros, MS; Pichai Raman, PhD; Karthik Kalletla, MS; Yuankun…
Thea’s Star of Hope’s Annual Awards Banquet and Auction
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Thea’s Star of Hope, a Robbinsville, NJ non-profit donated $40,000 to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia brain tumor research efforts. The check was presented at Thea’s Star of Hope’s annual Awards Banquet and Auction at the Stone Terrace in Hamilton on Friday, November 18. “We are proud to support the vital work done by our dear…