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Project Accelerate

posted on February 28, 2022
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Gift from a Child partner, the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN) has caught the attention of the NIH in a big way! The National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) have taken on the herculean task of sequencing the remaining tumor specimens in CBTN’s biorepository! Read why Project Accelerate will change the childhood cancer landscape.

Less than a quarter of all CBTN patient participants have had their tumor tissue molecularly sequenced,
The NIH and NCI have announced they will sequence the remaining collection of tumor specimens from CBTN’s cohort. This support will effectively quadruple the size of the CBTN’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas dataset.
With research partners, patients, foundations, and community members we will super-charge this massive dataset and optimize it to be completely searchable by investigators at any institution, at any career level, in any research discipline.

Read this exciting announcement from CBTN
https://cbtn.org/news/cbtns-project-accelerate-speeds-up-in-2022

Ginny McLean
Our guest blogs are posted by our Communications Director, Ginny McLean. To contact one of our guest bloggers please email info@swiftyfoundation.org. Ginny has an expertise in fundraising, social marketing and non-profit communications. She is working with Swifty, helping us take our message to the next level. She is leading our efforts to streamline and strategically focus our efforts. You will see Ginny representing Swifty at events, conferences and collaborating with our partner foundations and hospital teams.

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