Unleashing Cancer Immunotherapy Against a Diabolical Disease
It was in 6th grade that Crystal Mackall, MD, associate director of the Stanford Cancer Institute and professor of pediatrics (hematology/oncology) and of medicine at the Stanford University School...
Gordon and Betty Moore make $50 million gift to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to advance care and research for pediatric heart disease
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has received a gift of $50 million from Gordon and Betty Moore to deliver exceptional patient care and advance research for children with heart disease...
St. Baldrick’s + Silicon Valley: an unstoppable force in the fight against pediatric cancer
Worldwide, a child is diagnosed with cancer every two minutes. That means that every two minutes, another young life is changed forever. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-powered and donor...
Just before he turned 27, Tucker Davis was diagnosed with fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FL-HCC). FL-HCC is a rare liver cancer that usually occurs in adolescents and young adults who have...
Julia and David Koch Make Visionary $10 Million Gift to Establish New Clinical Research Unit for Allergy and Asthma
Julia and David Koch have announced a generous gift of $10 million to establish a new unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for clinical research. The unit will operate within the Sean...
Dear Friends, Your generosity plays a vital role in supporting faculty scholars and other investigators who might not otherwise have the resources to conduct their research. Premature babies like...
Parents get a behind-the-scenes look at their daughter’s donated brain tumor cells
Katherine King, known to her more than 30,000 Facebook followers as Katherine the Brave, was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) on June 2, 2015. DIPG is a tumor of the brain stem...
We met our match! Thanks to our tremendous community of food allergy supporters, we were able to raise a total of $2.4 million in just three short months with a challenge grant from the Hartman...
This summer Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, (pictured above) became the new Adalyn Jay Physician-In-Chief at Packard Children's and the chair of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. She...
Helping the ‘good guys’: Silicon Valley family sees connections between IT network security and medicine
Sichao Wang’s professional passion is IT security—as he says, “keeping the bad actors out and making sure the good information stays in and is not vulnerable.” A senior principal product manager at...
