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...

Sharing The Experience: The Genetic Predisposition Clinic

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...

Behind the Scenes at Elevate’s Advocacy Day!

by ElevateAdmin | May 20, 2024 | Advocacy, Elevate News, Research, Rhabdo Workgroup, State, Wilms Workgroup

         “Do you scratch your head wondering why it’s so hard to develop new therapies or change the standard of care for kids with cancer?      I sure hope you are curious about this—our curiosity is one of our greatest tools we can use when solving complex...