Childhood Cancer Initiative

Leveraging comparative genomics to defeat childhood cancer

Research at the UCSC Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative centers on developing tools to analyze each patient’s tumor in the context of genomic data collected from thousands of pediatric and adult tumors. Our research has resulted in a comparative approach that uses big data to find causes of cancer that are undetectable when analyzing each patient’s data in isolation. We partner with large hospitals that specialize in  treating children suffering from rare and hard to treat cancers. Our team provides analysis that informs targeted, less toxic and more effective treatments for patients whose cancer has not responded to standard therapies.