UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Receives Funding for Pediatric Cancer Research
The California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine awarded the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genomics Institute a $500,000 research grant. This award will supplement the institute’s work with the California Kids Cancer Comparison (CKCC), a collaboration between Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to collect and analyze genomic data from children with cancer.
With this funding, CKCC and UCSC Treehouse will conduct a 24-month registry study and evaluate the effectiveness of comparative RNA-sequence analysis in the clinic, including its impact on clinical decision-making, patient and family understanding of and engagement with genomic analysis, and tracking patient outcomes.
“We will have the ability to formally assess the clinical utility of genomic analysis within the clinical environment,†said Isabel Bjork, director of pediatric programs at the Genomics Institute. In addition, all analyses will be made publicly available.
Source: University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute press release, January 8, 2018.