KIDS V CANCER promotes pediatric cancer research by identifying structural impediments at key junctures in the research process— access to funding, tissue and drugs – and developing strategies to resolve them. Kids v Cancer seeks to improve the research infrastructure overall to increase the prospects that promising ideas are fully explored.
FUNDING FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH: Kids v Cancer seeks to increase funding, including by raising funds, for innovative, collaborative multi-therapeutic projects that are designed to have a potential major impact on pediatric cancer research.
TISSUE BANKS: Kids v Cancer is developing a program to promote pediatric autopsy brain tumor tissue donations.
DRUGS: Kids v Cancer is seeking ways to incentivize pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs for children with cancer and other life threatening diseases.
AWARENESS: Kids v Cancer is promoting awareness of pediatric cancer, including through a Facebook cause page that has attracted over half a million members.