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“Children are our future. It’s really important to take care of them.”

CLLS 2023 Symposium: Advancements in Childhood Leukemia and Lymphoma Research

Natural Killer Cell Symposium in Krems

International Day of Immunology: How to support the immune system

(Vienna, 29.4.2023) Today is International Day of Immunology – a day to raise awareness for the importance of immunology. A recent study from St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute reveals the association between an impaired immune system and the susceptibility to viral infections and cancer in a young patient.

From Now to NEXT: AI-Driven Neuroblastoma Diagnostics

„I think it’s our job as scientists to prepare research in a communicative way!” – Panel Discussion

18.04.23 / Panel Discussion “Reaching for the Stars – We & Science” 

Instand-NGS4P General Assembly

Drug combination shrinks childhood cancer in zebrafish

A combination therapy against childhood bone cancer is efficient in living organisms: if the tumor is transplanted into fish larvae and treated with certain drugs, it shrinks significantly or disappears completely. However, the journey will still take a while before these drugs can be applied in children, say Martin Distel, PhD, from St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute and co-authors. The results were published in the journal Cancer Letters.

Today is RARE DISEASE DAY: We are committed to rare disease research! 

Today is International Childhood Cancer Day!

🎗February 15 is International Childhood Cancer Day. This day stands for the challenges in combating childhood cancer and is a reminder to raise awareness for this devastating disesae.

ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Eleni Tomazou at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute

Dr. Eleni Tomazou, Principal Investigator at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI), wins one of the very hard to get Consolidator Grants of the European Research Council (ERC).

Cheryl van de Wetering wins postdoc fellowship from Engelhorn Foundation

 Congratulations! For the first time, a young researcher at St. Anna CCRI, Cheryl van de Wetering, PhD, has received a fellowship for outstanding young scientists from the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation.

Another success for the Kaan Boztug Group: two FWF Stand Alone projects approved!

Congratulations to Kaan Boztug and Irinka Castanon on two new Stand Alone projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF on the topic of rare diseases of the immune system.

Leukemia: Certain children can be spared transplantation

A study in collaboration with St. Anna CCRI shows that stem cell transplantation does not provide any advantage over chemotherapy in a specific form of leukemia.

Ana Kutschat selected for training program by European Hematology Association (EHA) and EMBL-EBI