Our mission is to
fund innovative, accessible research for children fighting cancer to provide better treatments and quality of life, and to educate for change
Our vision is to
create cures for all childhood cancers.
Staff
CKc staff are dedicated nonprofit professionals with a deep passion to cure childhood cancer.
Board Of Directors
Board members volunteer their time, talent, and treasure to support CKc’s mission to fund better, less-toxic, life-saving treatment options for kids with cancer.
Scientific Advisory Board
Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members are experts in the field of pediatric cancer research who volunteer their time to review and score grant applications.
Gregory Friedman, MD, Chair | Professor of Pediatrics | MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Kevin Bielamowicz, MD | Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist | Arkansas Children’s Hospital |
W. Thomas Cash, MD, MSC | Program Director and Clinical Director (ELG)-Solid Tumor | Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta |
Girish Dhall, MD | Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology | Children’s of Alabama |
James Geller, MD | Director – Liver, Kidney and Retinoblastoma Programs, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
Tanja Gruber, MD | Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation | Stanford Medicine |
Meenakshi Hegde, MD | Associate Professor, Pediatrics | Baylor College of Medicine |
Cassie Kline, MD, MAS | Director, Neurooncology Clinical Research | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Tobey MacDonald, MD | Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program | Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center |
Edward Prochownik, MD, PhD | Paul C. Gaffney Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | University of Pittsburgh |
Kathleen Sakamoto, PhD, MD | Professor, Pediatrics – Hematology & Oncology | Stanford Medicine |
Sarah Tasian, MD | Chief of the Hematologic Malignancies | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
David Teachey, MD | Associate Professor of Pediatrics | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Eric Thompson, MD | Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics | Washington University |
Jeffrey Toretsky, MD | Chief, Division of Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Hematology/Oncology | Georgetown University |
Nicholas Vitanza, MD | Attending Pediatric Neuro-Oncologist | Seattle Children’s Hospital |
Brenda Weigel, MD, MSc | Professor, Division Director, Lehman Family Chair in Pediatrics | University of Minnesota |
Peter Zage, MD, PhD | Associate Professor-in-Residence | University of California San Diego |