Help Fight Childhood Cancer Project

[Philippart]

World Community Grid is pleased to launch the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project by the Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute and Chiba University in Chiba prefecture, Japan. The mission of the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project is to use World Community Grid to find drugs which can disable three particular proteins associated with neuroblastoma, one of the most frequently occurring solid tumors in children. Finding drugs to disable these proteins would potentially make the disease much more curable with chemotherapy. Neuroblastoma is one of the most common tumors in early childhood and often leads to death. If this project is successful, it could dramatically increase the cure rate for neuroblastoma. This project may provide the breakthrough for this disease that has eluded scientists thus far. For additional information on this project, please press the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click here.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the heads-up, Tom!