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May 1, 2013
National Nurses Week is just around the corner, and this year we want to do some...: National Nurses Week is just around the corner, and this year we want to do something really special to honor our nurses. If a nurse has impacted your life directly or the life of a loved one, here is a chance to say thank you. Visit www.texaschildrens.org/nursesweek to submit a personal note of thanks that will be shared with our nursing team during Nurses Week. Please share this post to help us spread the word and show our nurses just how special they are!

May 14, 2013
'Off-the-shelf' virus-specific T-cells fight viral infections in stem cell transplant patients: Viral infections present deadly threats to patients who have received donor blood, marrow and cord stem cells transplants and are immune deficient while their transplants begin to work.

April 9, 2013
BCM major part of new pediatric cancer Dream Team initiative: Baylor College of Medicine is part of a Dream Team of childhood cancer researchers that will focus on melding the fields of genomics and immunotherapy to advance treatment for pediatric cancer.

March 28, 2013
Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer donates $75,000 to Texas Children’s Cancer Center: The grant will be used to fund a research project on neuroblastoma, an aggressive pediatric cancer that strikes approximately 650 children a year in the U.S., usually before age 5.

March 1, 2013
Fundraiser supports pediatric cancer in South Texas: Actor Diego Boneta, top right, helped raised $90,000 for the Vannie Cook Children’s Cancer Clinic in South Texas at the 2013 Radiothon.

February 27, 2013
Hematology-oncology faculty members receive renewed NIH funding to enhance T cell therapy for cancer: Hematology-oncology faculty members from the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy (CAGT) have received a $11.3 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance the development of more effective and less toxic targeted T cell therapies for children and adults with cancer.

February 1, 2013
Grant funds developmental therapeutics program: A five-year, $1.75 million grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation was awarded to Texas Children’s Cancer Center to establish the Developmental Therapeutics Center of Excellence.

January 4, 2013
Houston Radio Host Kevin Kline Completes his 62,000 Step Stair Run: Kevin Kline, Houston morning radio host on The New 93Q, ran 62,000 Stairs at Constellation Field, home of the Sugar Land Skeeters Baseball team in Sugarland, TX.

December 12, 2012
Vegetable compound could become ingredient to treating leukemia: A concentrated form of a compound called sulforaphane found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables has been shown to reduce the number of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells in the lab setting, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine. The findings appear in the current edition of PLOS ONE.

December 11, 2012
Montblanc and Texas Children’s Cancer Center encourage families to give a gift that counts this holiday season: Montblanc and Texas Children’s Cancer Center have launched a new initiative allowing people across the United States to show their support for children and adolescents fighting cancer by providing an opportunity to purchase a specially designed bracelet to be given to the parent of a pediatric cancer patient this holiday season.

December 6, 2012
Q&A: Sharon Plon on Baylor College of Medicine's First Year of Clinical Exome Sequencing: As a member of Baylor College of Medicine's Whole Genome Laboratory management committee, Sharon Plon has been a leader in establishing Baylor's clinical exome sequencing diagnostic test, which was launched last November.
This is part one of a two-part interview. Part two will appear in next week's issue.

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