The Science of Childhood Cancer

A 15-week virtual lecture series

Tanja Mittag

Looking back and looking forward for the Children’s Oncology Group

Original lecture date: April 24, 2025

Doug Hawkins, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital

Other lectures in the Spring 2025 series

Precision survivorship: predicting primary ovarian insufficiency risk in female survivors of childhood cancer
The leukemic niche - endothelial and macrophage control of clonality
Developing new models and therapies for high-risk pediatric embryonal brain tumors
Transcriptional dependencies in cancer
Chromatin-based regulations of gene transcription and oncogenesis
Lineage-specific dependencies in paediatric-type diffuse high-grade glioma
The ZERO Childhood Cancer - a national pediatric cancer precision medicine program
Transforming global pediatric cancer care: an update on strategies to address global inequities in childhood cancer care and control
Cardiometabolic risk factors in survivorship: a target to reduce morbidity and mortality

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