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St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute and its collaboration partner CeMM receive funding for a project aimed at providing tailored treatments for a type of childhood leukemia not adequately addressed by current therapy.

Prof. Christina Peters, MD, from St. Anna Children’s Hospital and St. Anna CCRI presents new data showing a dire need for immunotherapy strategies tackling high-risk childhood leukemia at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). Other updates from the same study (FORUM) confirm the superiority of total body irradiation prior to stem cell transplantation and the use of transplants from matched unrelated donors in children under the age of four with high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

How adult drugs from the group of MAP kinase inhibitors can also be used in children with cancer in a standardized manner worldwide has now been outlined in a statement in the renowned European Journal of Cancer. The authors of this review are stakeholders from all relevant fields, including Caroline Hutter, MD, PhD, scientist at St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, clinician at St. Anna Children's Hospital and expert in the rare pediatric cancer Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH). Her goal is to test the most effective and tolerable MAP kinase inhibitor in a clinical trial, thus enabling rapid market approval and availability for children.

On hot track! Davide Seruggia and Ana Kutschat focus on new epigenetic factors associated with risk of developing childhood leukemia.

This year, all three prizes, as well as the "best abstract of the conference" go to St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI) and St. Anna Children's Hospital!

…and the ÖGMBT Best Talk Award goes to: Eva König!

Socializing, getting further education and screening job offers: This year's Life Science Career Fair of the ÖGMBT offered a wide range of opportunities for students and graduates.

A great success! Dr. Eva König, principal investigator at St. Anna CCRI, is honored with the Heribert-Konzett-Prize of the Austrian Pharmacological Society (APHAR) for her scientific work on the interaction between immune and cancer cells. The prize is awarded to recognize the achievements of young scientists already conducting independent research in the field of experimental and clinical pharmacology and to encourage their further development.

Scientists off the record: In our summer interview series, St. Anna Children's Cancer Researcher Florian Halbritter shares not only his summer reading shortlist, but also his best advice to bring forward great ideas.

Pediatric cancer researchers publish collection of leukemia reviews in top journal “Frontiers in Pediatrics”. According to the authors, new therapies could spare some children a stem cell transplantation.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month – a month dedicated to remind us of the dire need to find more and better cures for this devastating disease.

St. Anna Childhood Cancer Researcher Michael Dworzak explains which question drives him, what matters in research/life and how to keep cool on hot summer days.