The CANSEARCH Foundation is pleased to fund Dr. Nicolas Waespe, a hematologist-pediatric oncologist and associate at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Berne, where the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry is located.

The collaboration concerns two projects: the project “BioLink, a contribution to the networking of biobanks for research purposes” to link the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry in Berne, the BaHOP in Geneva (“Biobank for Hematology and Oncology in Pediatrics “) and the tumor tissue bank based in Zurich, to provide researchers with clinical and genetic data on children who have been diagnosed with cancer or who will be diagnosed in the future.

The second project is a study on the long-term toxicity of some children who have been diagnosed with cancer. This study called GECCOS (“Genetic risks for Complications in Children after Oncological Treatment in Switzerland”), which is related to our biobank […]

We are happy to share with you an article (in French only) which appeared in the 1st Philanthropy Network Journal.  

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CANSEARCH co organised, from 25 – 27 September, a Summer School with the European Society of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy (ESPT) and the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) at the Geneva Biotech Campus on Personalized Medicine. More than 30 experts presented the latest developments in this innovative field.   http://www.esptsummerschool.eu

We are pleased to announce the participation of Professor Ansari and his researchers at the 59th ASH Congress to be held from 9-12 December 2017 in Atlanta. Presentations will focus on:

1. Myeloablative Conditioning for First Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Children with ALL: Total Body Irradiation or Chemotherapy? ­ a Multicenter EBMT-PDWP Study.
2. Outcome of Children Relapsing after First Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Retrospective I-BFM Analysis of 336 Children between 2005 and 2016.
3. A Protective Role of DNA Repair Genes Against Acute Graft Versus Host Disease in Children.