 It’s a humble privilege to serve on CPRIT’s Childhood Cancer Advisory Council & it makes me Texas proud that CPRIT has become a leader in childhood cancer research.didn’t raise all that moola, but we were right in the middle of DIRECTING it! We didn’t raise all that moola; But right in the middle of DIRECTING it!
 Dude, I’ll see ya in a little while; Until then, momma’s got work to do…
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“..it’s important for Texas to remain a national leader in cancer research & prevention..” American Cancer Society (ACS)
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Individual Investigator Awards for Cancer in Children & Adolescents
10 grants totaling $17,988,088
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Developing New Combinatory Therapies for Pediatric High Grade Glioma $1,945,940
- Genetic Susceptibility to Testicular Germ Cell Tumors
- $1,406,791
- Drug Discovery/Mechanistic Study Protein Methylation for Leukemia
- $1,733,813
- Personalized Functionalization of Pediatric High Grade Glioma $1,820,319
- The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Defining/Treating Targetable Lesions in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia $1,989,950
- Epigenetics in Medulloblastoma Development and Therapeutics $1,871,708
- Texas Tech University Health Science Center
- Translational Investigations on Fenretinide/Safingol for Pediatric Cancer $1,999,415
- The University of Houston
- Sensitive Nanomagnetic Sensor/Detection Anaplastic Lg Cell Lymphoma $1,929,710
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Ewing’s Sarcoma, a Homologous Recombination Defective Disease $2,000,000
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
- Imaging Computational Tools to Improve Risks in Childrens Bone Cancer $1,290,442
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Since our mission is two fold; along the way we encourage teens in the battle…
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 smiley Mav’s Dancer + Kyle + smiley Mav’s Dancer
 yeah, that’s Dirk’s locker! 🙂 sweet, beautiful sue (:  Donnie Nelson, President/GM of The Dallas Mav’s Rolled out The RED CARPET the night CLF & United Mechanical took a Premier Transportation Limo FULL of cancer fighting teens to the Mavs Chandler Parson’s Bobble Head Night. Our night was full of crazy-great surprises #shoot around on MAV’S practice court #courtside@halftime #Mavs locker room #Mavs Dancers #Mavs Cheerleaders One cancer-fighting-teen told us, “that was the best day of my whole life”!
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