Be Bold! Be Bald!

Be Bold! Be Bald!

Be Bold! Be Bald! was the mantra for the 2nd annual St. Baldrick’s Foundation Fundraiser hosted by the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative at the UCSC Genomics Institute. We raised more than $12,000 to support research for pediatric cancer! Twenty heads were...
UC Santa Cruz Goes Bald to Support Childhood Cancer Research

UC Santa Cruz Goes Bald to Support Childhood Cancer Research

Staff and students join St. Baldrick’s Foundation event to raise money to fight childhood cancer   SANTA CRUZ, CA – October 17 , 2017  – The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-powered organization dedicated to raising money for children’s cancer...
Tailoring Tumor Treatments

Tailoring Tumor Treatments

Devika G. Bansal, UC Santa Cruz Science Notes “We can’t change which drugs are available,” says Morozova. “But we’re realizing there’s a lot of opportunities [for pediatric cancer]—a lot more than we previously thought.” In May 2012, a ten-year-old boy named Kelvin...