Description

St. Baldrick's Foundation supports specific, one-year, hypothesis-driven projects focused on survivorship and supportive care for children and adolescents with cancer. Research may examine the burden of morbidity, cause-specific mortality, or the pathogenesis of treatment-related complications. Other areas include patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, health communication, health promotion, and psychosocial support from diagnosis through survivorship or end-of-life care. These examples describe the program's interests without limiting proposals to those topics.

The program is part of the Foundation's Spring grant cycle, with funding based on scientific review by volunteer experts. Its broader mission is to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. Resource sharing is an expected outcome of supported research, promoting access to scientific information, collaboration, faster discovery, and reproducibility.