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Grant will fund sarcoma research
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The Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation awarded a $250,000 grant to Sandra Orsulic, PhD, director of Women’s Cancer Biology in the Women’s Cancer Program at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.
The Innovation Award grant — intended to provide seed funding for investigators with novel and promising approaches to identifying causes and cures for childhood cancers — will help researchers in Orsulic’s laboratory study cell metabolism in childhood sarcomas. The researchers will study the distinct metabolism of undifferentiated cancer cells, which can be targeted to reverse the differentiation state of cancer cells and reduce tumor growth.
“I feel honored to receive the Innovation Award by this unique foundation that was started by the mission of a 4-year-old girl who battled cancer throughout her short life,” Orsulic said in a press release. “Though the world lost Alex to cancer, her legacy continues to live, making tremendous impact in the fight against cancer. With this grant, my team of investigators can help to accelerate discoveries and push forward the field of pediatric sarcoma research.”