Dr. Esther Obeng: At Home in Her Lab at St. Jude
We love this feature on one of our fabulous grantees, Dr. Esther Obeng of St. Jude! Not only is Dr. Obeng a first-generation American, she’s also designing studies to identify cancer-causing...
Your support of Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation allows us to push the boundaries of what is scientifically possible for those living with blood cancer. Meet the dedicated research scientists whose cutting-edge ideas are giving patients reason to hope and hear all about their latest breakthroughs below!
Scientists develop new CRISPR-based tool to control epigenome
Scientists have revealed how to modify CRISPR’s basic architecture to extend its reach beyond the genome and into the epigenome – proteins and small molecules that latch onto DNA and control when...
Less is more for the next generation of CAR T cells
When researchers from Penn Medicine (including two of our grantees, Dr. Saar Gill and Dr. Marco Ruella!) found that many patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treated with the...
She’s Beating Leukemia With a Healthy Change to Her Diet
More details about the study from Gabrielle’s Angels grantee Dr. Etan Orgel! The study found that kids who ate healthier, slightly cut their calorie intake, and burned a bit more energy through...
Diet and exercise may increase efficacy of chemotherapy for children with cancer
(left: Dr. Steven Mittelman, right: Dr. Etan Orgel) New research published today in the journal Blood Advances is the first to show that restricting calories, reducing fat and sugar intake, and...
Study finds cancer cells may evade chemotherapy by going dormant
Cancer cells can dodge chemotherapy by entering a state that bears similarity to certain kinds of senescence, a type of “active hibernation” that enables them to weather the stress...
CRISPR-edited CAR T Cells Enhance Fight Against Blood Cancers
Congratulations to Gabrielle’s Angels grantee Dr. Marco Ruella and his colleagues at the Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania on this impressive breakthrough! Dr. Ruella and...
Yale Study Connects Long COVID with Autoantibodies
Our researchers are not only making an impact in blood cancer research, they’re also making important discoveries in the fight against Covid. Immunologists Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, and...
Rogue antibodies could be driving severe COVID-19
More details about the important work that one of our grantees, Dr. Aaron Ring at Yale University, has been contributing to throughout the pandemic. He has been focused on discovering answers to...
Celebrating the Women Who Battle Blood Cancer
Check out this fabulous feature on the rockstar women cancer researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, including Dr. Teresa Bowman and Dr. Hilda Ye who are Gabrielle’s Angel...
A Tumor Suppressor Enhancer of PTEN in T-cell Development and Leukemia
Congratulations to Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation grantee Dr. Herranz and his team for their recent publication in Blood Cancer Discovery! Their lab has successfully identified a tumor suppressor...
Dana-Farber Medical Oncology Chair receives Sjöberg Prize for cancer research
Congratulations to 2011 Gabrielle’s Angels Grantee Dr. Benjamin Ebert for being selected to receive the coveted Sjöberg Prize for cancer research. This $1M prize was awarded for Dr....