From A QuadW - AACR Sarcoma Research Fellowship To An Independent Career

Time flies when you’re having fun and doing great work! Seeing our 2015 QUADW-AACR Sarcoma Research Fellow, Genevieve Kendall, PhD, continue her research keeps us motivated and hopeful. The fellowship provided mentorship, data access, publications, and a continued commitment to understanding sarcoma. Dr. Kendall began with rhabdomyosarcoma research using zebrafish animal models in 2015. Fast forward to 2019, she is now a Principal Investigator and a tenure-track assistant professor at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kendall has expanded her expertise to include her own independent research program focusing on developing cross species comparative oncology models to understanding pediatric fusion-positive sarcoma biology and identifying therapeutic strategies. Wow! Thank you, Dr. Kendall, for your innovative work and commitment to sarcoma!

Link: https://www.aacr.org/.../from-a-quadw-aacr-sarcoma.../

QuadW Visits Atlanta for MIB Agent's 2023 FACTOR Conference

What a JOY for QUADW to attend MIB Agent’s 2023 FACTOR Conference in Atlanta! The community that MIB provides for patients, patient advocates, physicians, researchers, and families is truly something special. We listened to OSI Strategic Advisory Board Chair Dr. Chand Khanna, who spoke about the latest at OSI, and heard from past QUADW YIA and fellowship recipients, Dr. Jason Yustein and Dr. Ryan Roberts. The talks were an interesting mix of studies involving dogs, mice, and cutting-edge science offering hope for all. We listened to patients speak the raw truth about their experiences with osteosarcoma, which gave us the motivation we needed to keep up the fight.

Overall, we enjoyed catching up with friends and foundations, discussing how we can collaborate and make it better. Thank you, MIB Agents, for offering this space for connection and collaboration, with lots of quality time and community shared at this year’s conference.

QuadW's Trip to ASCO 2023

It was a wonderful visit to ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) in Chicago this past weekend. We appreciated the call to action for improving our response to failed sarcoma trials, heard about great new projects, and caught up with friends and colleagues. The highlights were meeting our new Conquer Cancer Foundation - QuadW Foundation YIA, Dr. Kristine Lacuna, as well as this year’s CCF/ASCO-QuadW Foundation Endowed Merit Awardee, Dr. Sminu “Sam” Bose. We are already looking forward to next year!

QuadW Joins Forces with Owenwood Farm & Neighbor Space for DSO's Young Musicians Program

This spring, QuadW joined forces with Owenwood Farm & Neighbor Space to bring the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Young Musicians Program to Far East Dallas. The program is for students in underrepresented communities and teaches music education, instruments, and performance, with an eye towards a career in the arts. In addition to career prospects, this incredible program promotes discipline, responsibility, and citizenship through 8+ hours of music and strings instruction per week. The Owenwood site opened in March and is funded by QuadW, Owenwood, and the DSO. Young Musicians Program Artistic Director Roberto Zambrano Leon joined us for a site visit, and we were blown away by his passion as well as the musicality of these students learned in a short amount of time!

Greer Manley Receives 2023 Willie Tichenor Arts Scholarship at HPHS

Congratulations to Greer Manley for receiving the 2023 Willie Tichenor Arts Scholarship at Highland Park High School! Greer has a passion for theater and choir. She plans to attend Samford University and major in pre-med/psychology with a minor in music therapy.  We admire her commitment to community and passion for music. We can’t wait to see what the future has in store for Greer!

QuadW Matches $50,000 for Cycle for Survival

The Cycle for Survival ride in Dallas on April 15th was incredible! Thank you, thank you to the incredible teams whose fundraising we matched in support of #memorialsloankettering and the #sarcoma department led by Dr. Bill Tap, raising over $100,000!!

A special thanks to the #cycleforsurvival and Equinox staff, particularly Bob Harbeson, who leads the QuadW effort every year with so much success.

We ride for Willie and all of those lost to #osteosarcoma. “It is unacceptable for any patient to hear there are no treatment options left.” We feel the same and are doing what we can to change that!

See full reel here!

QuadW had a fantastic board meeting in March full of fun, fellowship with each other and the The Osteosarcoma Institute community, and great work.

A special thanks to Dr. Yang Xie UT Southestern for telling us about her incredible work with the Osteosarcoma Explorer, which collects data being used by researchers that we hope will develop new and less toxic treatments for #osteosarcoma patients. QuadW is thankful for this partnership through our The Children's Oncology Group #COG grant.

We are proud of our work in 2022 and look forward to an exciting year ahead in 2023!