UAB has been awarded two grants totaling $262,824 from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-powered charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research. Corey Falcon, M.D., fellow in the UAB Department of Pediatrics, was awarded a grant to continue looking for cures and better treatments for childhood cancers. Dr. Falcon received a $163,449 grant from the Not All Who Wander Are Lost Fund to continue his research aimed at creating a novel strategy around cellular suicide gene, or cells that kill themselves through apoptosis. 

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