Summary
Organization name
CureSearch for Children's Cancer
1987
Tax id (EIN)
95-4132414
Category
Medical Research
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
PO Box 45781Baltimore, MD 21297-5781
US
CO, US
MN, US
Our mission is to end children's cancer.
CureSearch for Children’s Cancer is a 501(c)3 U.S.-based non-profit foundation that believes every child with cancer deserves a safe and effective treatment option. We’re accelerating the development of new childhood cancer treatments by funding high-potential research projects with aggressive timelines to meet our end goal: developing treatments to save kids now.
CureSearch has been a driving force in childhood cancer research for more than 35 years, and our strategy works. CureSearch pre-clinical projects are 7x more likely to advance to clinical trials and get there over a year faster compared to the national average.
Kids with cancer can't wait. Learn more and join us in funding cures:
Mission
Our mission is to end childhood cancer by driving targeted and innovative research with measurable results in an accelerated time frame.
Recognizing a broken system, growing obstacles, and unmet needs in drug development, we’ve launched an innovative and unique strategy to address the urgent, critical need for new and better childhood cancer treatments. By supporting CureSearch, you’re funding research that’s on the path to quickly becoming a drug accessible to the children who so desperately need new treatment options, and you’re providing innovative platforms that allow stakeholders to work smarter, faster, and more collaboratively.
Together, we're changing the drug development landscape from within and accelerating the development of safe, effective treatments for the 42 children diagnosed with cancer each day.
Background Statement
CureSearch for Children’s Cancer has been a driving force behind childhood cancer research for more than 35 years. For many of those years, CureSearch (originally known as the National Childhood Cancer Foundation) acted as the fiscal agent for National Cancer Institute grants to members of the Children’s Oncology Group.
In 2012, CureSearch became a privately funded organization, no longer constrained -or supported - by a complex and bureaucratic government granting system. We seized this opportunity to examine the field of childhood cancer research and treatment, and to really understand the systemic barriers that keep new and less toxic treatments from reaching children in the clinic. We re-engineered our research portfolio to demand real patient impact from our funding, instead of being satisfied with publishing in academic journals. We now focus on projects with the greatest potential to reach pediatric clinical trials by the end of the three-year award, holding our researchers accountable to rigorous milestones while providing them with scientific and industry expertise to help ensure their research is engineered to advance into the clinic and ultimately, to the kids who are depending on us.
With our cutting-edge research strategy and industry-leading resources, CureSearch is leading the field in driving and delivering results so that all children diagnosed with cancer have safe and effective treatment options.
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Baltimore, MD 21297-5781