Be a hero for kids with cancer by joining or donating to a St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraiser on March 21 at UI Health and support research to find cures for childhood cancers.
Sign up to shave your head or to raise money another way. The Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at UI Health is organizing the event, and the goal is to raise $10,000. So far nine people have signed up to have their heads shaved.
Over the years, the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Department of Pediatrics has received more than $2 million from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to help support pediatric clinical studies. The UIC Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Program, a tri-institutional consortium partnering UIC, Rush University Medical Center and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County and managed by the University of Illinois Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office, can enroll patients in 18 clinical studies.
The March 21 fundraiser will be held from 8 – 10 a.m. in UI Health- Private Dining Room A, 1740 West Taylor Street in Chicago.