Given Katie’s battle with leukemia, raising funds for blood cancer research is a priority for our nonprofit work. We learned of a research project/clinical trial at the UW Carbone Cancer Center that focuses on a new innovative process for improving bone marrow transplants, a common and risky treatment for blood cancer patients. We are hopeful that our efforts will contribute to better and more successful treatments for high-risk leukemia patients – especially young adults (like Katie) and children.
To date, we have donated $56,000 to the UW Carbone Cancer Center to support this research.
2019
Presenting our $32,000 Check in 2019
In 2019 we donated $32,000 to the UW Carbone Cancer Center to continue to fund the research project/clinical trialsl.
2018
Presenting our $24,000 Check in 2018
In 2018 we donated $24,000 to the UW Carbone Cancer Center. This donation contributed to research studding a new way to do transplant in people with really bad leukemia (AML or ALL) that have a high risk of relapse. The hope is to reduce the risk of rejection problems while enhancing the anti-leukemia effects of the donor immune system. This is the kind of protocol doctors might use for someone like Katie who had high-risk ALL.
Our “silly” picture
When we arrived at the Carbone Cancer Center at UW Hospital we were met with the entire blood cancer team; Dr. Ryan Mattison (the Dr. who cared for Katie at Carbone), Dr. Aric Hall (the Dr. who was the spokesperson during Katie’s Birthday Benefit), Dawn Reininger, (Katie’s oncology nurse), Dr. Mark Juckett (the Dr. working with us and our nonprofit), Dr.Howard Bailey (the Head of the Carbone Cancer Center) and Amy Manecke, (head of fundraising). (Pictured Below)
It was emotional however, a funny moment occurred after the first picture was taken when Gracie spoke up and said, “Okay now we need a funny one!” Hence the second photo of all of us attempting to “be funny”.
Supporting this type of research gives us hope that our efforts can make a difference for another person like Katie.