Precision Medicine for Pediatric Cancer

by ElevateAdmin | Jun 24, 2025 | Advocacy, Elevate News, Federal, Fundraisers, Get involved/Volunteer, Research, Results, Rhabdo Workgroup, State, Upcoming/Promotion, Wilms Workgroup

Precision Medicine for Pediatric Cancer    Our goal is for those diagnosed with pediatric cancers to be offered precision medicine from DAY ONE of their diagnosis. -Robyn Spoon, PhD, Elevate Founder and CEO    I am often asked what Elevate does and the easy thing to...

R01 Grants and Wilms Tumor Research: A Decade of Setbacks and Why These Critical Funding Gaps Matter

by ElevateAdmin | Mar 10, 2025 | Advocacy, Elevate Kids, Federal, Fundraisers, Research, State, Wilms Workgroup

RO1 Grants and Wilms Tumor Research A Decade of Setbacks and Why These Critical Funding Gaps Matter Here’s the heartbreaking reality: Wilms tumor, the most common abdominal childhood cancer & most common tumor affecting the kidneys, hasn’t received an R01 grant in...

Pediatric Cancer Predisposition: One Family’s Shared Experience

by ElevateAdmin | Mar 5, 2025 | Advocacy, Research, Wilms Workgroup

Sharing the Experience The Genetic Predisposition Clinic “Ralphie’s nine-year-old sister was not identified as having a cancer predisposition syndrome until after she had been diagnosed with cancer, Wilms tumor, twice. By that time cancer filled her little body,...

Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Wilms Tumor that Puts Children in the Center

by ElevateAdmin | Jun 27, 2024 | Advocacy, Elevate News, Research, Wilms Workgroup

Elevate Wilms Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Wilms tumor that puts Children in the Center “Organizing ideas for presentation is one of the best ways to learn. What we learn we can teach. I learned a new concept through working on the poster—design thinking. And...

Elevate Wilms at the 12th International Pediatric Renal Tumors Biology Meeting

by ElevateAdmin | Jun 18, 2024 | Advocacy, Elevate News, Federal, Research, Wilms Workgroup

Elevate Wilms 12th International Pediatric Renal Tumors Biology Meeting “Five years ago I was sitting across from the oncologists, today, I sit with them.”    – C. Comer MTS, BSN, RN, Mike Ortiz, MD and Robyn Spoon, Elevate CEO       Great...

Change Starts From the Ground Up

by ElevateAdmin | May 31, 2024 | Advocacy, Research, Wilms Workgroup

The Comer Family & Elevate Wilms Change Starts From The Ground Up “Elevate provides a space to work towards solutions and a platform to make effective change.”    – C. Comer MTS, BSN, RN, Guest Blog by: C. Comer MTS, BSN, RN       In the past, people...