Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) awarded four of its 22 Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program grants to Penn students. Funded by these grants, all four students are currently training under research mentors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia:

William Fix, MD’18: FLT3 Receptor-Redirected Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for AML and ALL

Michael Randall, MD’18: Cytotoxic Activity of an Anti-CD56 Antibody-Drug Conjugate, ab906-PBD, in Neuroblastoma

Milan Savani, C’17: Replicating Cells are Vulnerable to Mutations Induced by APOBEC3 Enzymes

Melanie Weingart, MD’18: Investigating the Role of LIN28B in Mediating Stemness/Self-renewal in Neuroblastoma