To Unlock the Power of Partnerships,

Alignment of Goals Is Key

Only by working together can we reach our shared goal to finally, once and for all, end childhood cancer. These partners share our values and mission. They embrace our model. And we all agree: it’s time to leverage the power of data and collaboration to end this horrific disease.

Children’s Brain Tumor Network

Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN) is a collaborative research effort that optimizes and shares data to discover more effective treatments for childhood brain tumors. The organization includes more than 30 member institutions located across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. Collectively, these member sites create the world’s most comprehensive repository of childhood brain tumors, available by request and freely provided to scientists everywhere. CBTN’s suite of informatics and analytics platforms enable researchers to collaborate together in real-time on behalf of all children diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Bridge To A Cure is a member of the CBTN Executive Council and sits on the CBTN Executive Board to push for institutional participation and peer foundation support along with providing expertise in strategic planning and communications. And now, there’s an amazing alignment between Bridge To A Cure Foundation and Children’s Brain Tumor Network that will allow crucial leverage of both organizations’ resources to boost the efforts of all through the Bridge To Cure-CBTN Fund.

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

Foundation President Robert Martin sits on the board of directors of St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest non-government funder of childhood cancer research grants, has raised $310 million to fund 1,620 research grants. The goal of Bridge To A Cure is to influence this important funder to support open science process and projects in cooperation with institutions like the Children’s Brain Tumor Network. Further, Bridge To A Cure provides leadership and strategic insight to enhance operations.

Our coalition of childhood cancer foundations has played an active role in passage of the STAR Reauthorization Act, comprehensive bipartisan childhood cancer funding bill originally passed by Congress in 2018. This game-changing bill is the culmination of volunteers, advocates, and policymakers all working together to remove barriers to cures, and now includes language that leads to more data collected, analyzed, and accessed faster.

Pediatric Cancer Data Commons

Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC) works alongside research institutions around the world to transform the childhood cancer landscape and outcomes. They develop and apply uniform data standards that facilitate the collection, combination, and analysis of data from many different sources — playing an important role in furthering the work of CBTN. By harmonizing existing clinical research data and leading international efforts to standardize data collection, PCDC is breaking down long-standing barriers that have held back advancements toward cures.

Bridge To A Cure Foundation granted funding to jumpstart the completion of a childhood brain tumor dictionary that gives researchers a single, unified vocabulary for recording and interpreting data. Now, the data processed can reflect the same terminology no matter where in the world the data is recorded.

Smashing Walnuts Foundation

The Smashing Walnuts Foundation is a leading advocate for childhood cancer, focusing on funding, lobbying. and directing resources to develop better treatment protocols and cures for childhood cancer. Bridge To A Cure Foundation has partnered with Smashing Walnuts and other foundations who share this goal to engage our elected leaders to pass key childhood cancer funding initiatives that include The Gabriella Miller Kids First Act 2.0 and the 2022 STAR Act renewal.

National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the federal government’s principal agency for cancer research and training. Bridge To A Cure Foundation continues to push the NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative to fund consolidation and expansion of childhood brain tumor data to develop a model that can be used for all childhood cancers. The impetus of the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative was an October 2017 presentation by Bridge To A Cure Foundation to Ned Sharpless, the newly appointed NCI Director. This project has been bank-rolled by the federal government at $50 million annually over ten years. NCI has identified partner CBTN as the model for building an effective national childhood cancer database in part due to the endorsement of Bridge To A Cure Foundation.

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Bridge To A Cure Foundation greatly respects the researchers, practitioners, and institutions working to provide better outcomes for pediatric cancer patients and their families. Your commitment to saving lives is an intense intellectual and emotional challenge that often goes unnoticed.

Thanks to the insight and input of more than 120 pediatric oncologists and other healthcare professionals from leading institutions such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Duke Cancer Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering , Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, and other leading cancer centers, we now realize what our medical professionals need to finally wipe out the savage cells that target our children. Based on their invaluable insight, we developed the tenets of our Action Plan.

These are the dedicated healers that work tirelessly to change the status quo — realizing that we cannot continue to repeat what hasn’t worked and who feel the urgency to implement a better approach to childhood cancer research. To learn more, read our blog article Recognizing Children’s Unsung Heroes.

Community

Childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease among America’s youth, so accelerating the pace and success of cures for childhood cancer must be a national priority.

It’s time that families, neighbors, and communities demand more from our healthcare system, our nonprofit foundations, our pharmaceutical and technology companies, and our government. We know how painfully slowly research has progressed in fighting pediatric cancer – too slow to bring hope to children facing these diseases today. Repeating what we’ve done in the past won’t cut it.

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