Representatives with Hyundai Hope On Wheels presented a $400,000 Scholar Hope Grant to Theodore Johnson, MD, PhD, at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia to support pediatric brain cancer research at Augusta University’s Georgia Cancer Center.
Johnson and his research team are working to define the mechanisms that suppress the body’s immune response and allow tumor survival, so they can identify ways to counteract those processes and fortify the immune system to fight the tumor instead.
“This grant represents another critical pledge in our fight against pediatric brain tumors,” said Johnson, a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at Children’s Hospital of Georgia and co-director of the Pediatric Immunotherapy Program at the Georgia Cancer Center.
Source: Hyundai invests $400,000 in pediatric cancer research