Challice Bonifant and Eric Raabe, both oncologists at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, were recently awarded grants from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, an organization that supports research to find cures and improve treatments for childhood cancers.

Bonifant will use her $115,000 scholar grant to support her ongoing research related to determining whether engineered T-cells can provide better outcomes for young patients with cancer.

Raabe was awarded a $100,000 research grant to find better, less toxic therapies to treat atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors, rare and fast-growing cancerous tumors of the brain and spinal cord. Raabe’s studies are providing the pre-clinical information necessary to support the launch of an international clinical trial for pediatric patients with this deadly brain tumor.