Research

ACCELERATING PRECISION MEDICINE FOR ALL CHILDREN

ACCELERATING PRECISION MEDICINE FOR ALL CHILDREN

ACCELERATING PRECISION MEDICINE FOR ALL CHILDREN

Each year, 2,500 children and teenagers are diagnosed with cancer in France. For 20% of them, there is still no treatment to cure them. Their only hope: progress in research. Faced with these intolerable and unbearable figures, it is important to change the situation. Imagine for Margo has worked, since its creation in 2011, on […]

8th edition of our FAST conference

8th edition of our FAST conference

8th edition of our FAST conference

On Saturday March 6, 2021, the 8th edition of our FAST conference took successfully place in a connected way, via Zoom. Throughout the morning, we were able to discuss with the various players in research in France – doctors, researchers, institutions, parliamentarians, drug manufacturers – on the progress of research in pediatric oncology and the […]

RESEARCH AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER: ADVANCES IN 2020

RESEARCH AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER: ADVANCES IN 2020

RESEARCH AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER: ADVANCES IN 2020

Research against childhood cancer that we fund: four major advances in 2020   With the launch of our first Fight Kids Cancer call for projects, with the Belgian Kick Cancer Foundation and the Luxembourg Kriibskrank Kanner Foundation in January 2020, a new dimension is opening up for pediatric oncology research: researchers from all European countries are invited […]

Fight Kids Cancer : six selected pediatric cancer research programs

Fight Kids Cancer : six selected pediatric cancer research programs

Fight Kids Cancer : six selected pediatric cancer research programs

Following the innovative Fight Kids Cancer call for projects that we launched in January 2020 with the Belgian KickCancer Foundation and the Luxembourg Kriibskrank Kanner Foundation, twenty-three research projects against childhood cancer were submitted by various European researchers between mid -January and end of April 2020 and have been evaluated by the international experts of […]

Colloque FAST 2020

Colloque FAST 2020

Colloque FAST 2020

Pour la 7e année consécutive, nous avons réuni, samedi 8 février 2020, les différents acteurs de la recherche en oncologie pédiatrique afin d’échanger sur les dernières avancées et de discuter des enjeux futurs pour accélérer au niveau français et européen. La salle Clémenceau était comble : médecins, chercheurs, institutionnels, parlementaires, industriels du médicament, Fondations, associations […]

MAPPYACTS enables precision medecine for children with therapeutic failure

MAPPYACTS enables precision medecine for children with therapeutic failure

MAPPYACTS enables precision medecine for children with therapeutic failure

Presented at the ASCO annual congress in Chicago in June 2019, the first results of MAPPYACTS, that we have cofunded giving 1.720.000€ thanks to the Children without Cancer races in 2017 and 2019, are promising : for 2/3 of the children whose tumor was analyzed, therapeutical targets could be identified, allowing them to benefit from […]

The research moves forward

The research moves forward

The research moves forward

First results of AcSe-ESMART presented at ASCO

First results of AcSe-ESMART presented at ASCO

First results of AcSe-ESMART presented at ASCO

The therapeutical trial AcSé-ESMART, unique in the world in the pediatric field and that we have co-funded giving 1.832.000€, gives access to 10 personalized and innovative treatments to children in relapse or with therapeutical failure. The French newspaper Le Figaro has summarized this very promising approach in the below article published on the 4th of June of […]