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At the Pediatrician
KTJF will use 100% of donations to provide
families battling pediatric cancer with  supportive
local care and advancement to a cure. 

 

IMPACT

CARE

Imagine a place where kids can discover, learn, play, and just be kids - in a hospital. Through a partnership between Kids Join the Fight and Children's Hospital New Orleans, that dream is becoming a reality.

 

Walker's Imaginarium at Children's Hospital New Orleans will be a therapeutic space for children, families, and even members of the community to gather, and create moments of joy. The 12,000 square foot center will be one of the largest and most comprehensive hospital-based child enrichment spaces in the country.

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We will also provide meals to families in the hospitals across our region, and we are always on the lookout for additional ways we can ease the burden for children and their families affected by childhood cancer. Please reach out if you have ideas!

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CARE
Brain Scans

CURE

$200,000 in New Grants for Pediatric Brain Cancer Research

In 2024, we awarded $200,000 in new grants to pediatric brain cancer researchers around the country, continuing our collaboration with the Rally Foundation. Over the past three years, our collective efforts have resulted in $1.5 million in grants to support groundbreaking research. Every dollar raised and every grant awarded moves us closer to a cure.

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Kids Join the Fight grants are awarded based on a competitive dual peer-review process conducted by both the Kids Join the Fight Medical Advisory Board and the Rally Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board, which are both comprised of leading childhood cancer experts. The grants fund all levels of research, from science at the bench to translational, and they include fellows, young investigators and independent investigators. Kids Join the Fight focuses funding on pediatric brain cancers with a specific emphasis on treatments that could both cure children and reduce the debilitating secondary effects of common cancer treatments on their growing bodies.

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This year we are proud to support the following researchers and believe via these or our future partners your support will contribute to the curing of pediatric brain cancer:
 

  • Baylor College of Medicine: Dr. Jamie Anastas for Targeting the SAGA Chromatin Regulatory Complex in DMG

  • Seattle Children's Hospital: Dr. Myron Evans for Targeting the CDK8 kinase module in MYC-amplified medulloblastoma

  • University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: Dr. Gregory Friedman for Interrogation of Brain Tumor Immunophenotypes with Expansion Microscopy

  • SonALAsense, Inc.: Dr. Stuart Marcus for A Phase 1/2 Study of Sonodynamic Therapy Using SONALA-001 and Exablate 4000

  • Emory University: Dr. Adam Yassen-Goldman for Quantitative CEST MRI to evaluate pediatric brain tumors

  • The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Dr.  Aashim Bhatia for 3D-Magnetic Resonance Elastography of Pediatric Brain Tumors

  • Emory University: Dr. Jorge Macias Jimenez for Elucidating the vascular biology of RTK-mutant pediatric high-grade gliomas

CURE
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