{"id":32967,"date":"2023-01-17T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/?p=32967"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T20:44:55","slug":"v-foundation-for-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/2023\/01\/v-foundation-for-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Davis Awarded $1 Million by V Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"
The V Foundation<\/strong><\/a> Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board has awarded funding to Ian Davis, MD, PhD<\/a>, the G. Denman Hammond Professor of Childhood Cancer in the Division of Hematology\/Oncology and a 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member, for his research project, \u201cNovel mechanisms to improve CAR-T cell therapy for pediatric solid tumors\u201d<\/em>. The award is being funded by the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> The award amount will total $1,000,000, over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n More than 15,000 children and adolescents are diagnosed each year with cancer in the United States. The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded by ESPN and legendary basketball coach Jim Valvano. Since its formation in 1993, the V Foundation has awarded over $310 million in cancer research grants nationwide and has grown to become one of the premier supporters of cutting-edge cancer research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The V Foundation Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board has awarded funding to Ian Davis, MD, PhD, the G. Denman Hammond Professor of Childhood Cancer in the Division of Hematology\/Oncology and a 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member, for his research project, \u201cNovel mechanisms to improve CAR-T cell therapy for pediatric solid tumors\u201d. The award is being funded by the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund. The award amount will total $1,000,000, over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3424,"featured_media":32968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[211,172,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hemonc","category-peds-news","category-research","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n