Over 25 years ago, Hyundai dealers in New England created a charity to fund pediatric cancer research. Today, Hyundai Hope on Wheels is nationwide and has donated $250 million to cancer centers around the country.
Auto dealers charity drives funding for new pediatric cancer researchOnly 4% of the cancer research money from the National Institutes of Health goes to childhood cancer, so private funding is essential.Neuroblastoma is the most common solid cancer in children under the age of five, but Dr. Adam Wolpaw and Dr. Timothy Spear of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia say despite recent progress, it's also one of the hardest to treat.
"We saw that they have some vulnerabilities that suggest they might be more easily killed with immune cells," Dr. Wolpaw says."To either engineer children's immune cells to fight the cancer or develop vaccines to inform those immune cells how to fight cancer," he says.
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