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Committees
Executive Committee
The members of the Executive Committee meet once every two months to discuss plans to integrate clinical and research activities of the Nemours Clinics, recruit faculty, enhance building infrastructure, decide membership and develop strategies to collaborate with cancer research institutions.
Eric Sandler, MD, Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology Nemours Children’s Clinic, Jacksonville esandler@nemours.org
Chatchawin Assanasen, MD, Hematology/Oncology Nemours Children’s Clinic, Pensacola cassanas@nemours.org
Paul Gordon, MD, Hematology/Oncology Nemours Children’s Clinic, Orlando pgordon@nemours.org
Christopher Frantz, MD Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology Nemours Children’s Clinic, Wilmington cfrantz@nemours.org
Ayyappan Rajasekaran, PhD, Director, Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research araj@medsci.udel.edu
Seminar Organizing Committee
The members of the Seminar Organizing Committee prepare the annual meeting schedule and recruit external speakers for the monthly NCCCR-Hematology/Oncology Translational Research Meetings and for the weekly Membrane Biology Lab, Cancer Cell Metabolism Lab, and High Throughput Screening/Drug Discovery Lab.
Chairperson:
- Valerie Sampson, PhD
Members:
- Sigrid A. Langhans, PhD
- Sonali Barwe, PhD
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NCCCR Receives Grant from Delaware Health Sciences Alliance
A team led by Dr. A.J. Rajasekaran, Director, Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, received a $75,000 award to study nanotechnology- based drug delivery for childhood leukemia.
New Rapid Screening Lab To Help Advance Treatment
Thanks to a donation from the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation, the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research has opened the new High-Throughput Screening Laboratory whose rapid screening will help drive the discovery of more effective drug therapies.
- Learn more about this gift
- Watch Philadelphia 6-ABC story about new lab