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Peach Bowl LegACy Fund

The Peach Bowl LegACy Fund was established in 2019 with a $20 million donation to the Aflac Cancer & Bood Disorders of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to fight childhood cancer. The purpose of the fund is to enhance the center's ability to open clinical trials for children, adolescents and young adults with pediatric cancers. This includes the development of novel drugs, devices and treatment strategies. The overall goal is to ensure that high-priority novel agents, devices and treatments can be tested in patients in a more rapid manner.

Please email peach.bowl@emory.edu with any questions or requests for further information.

RFP Announcement - (2025 TBA)
Letter of Intent Due – 
Application Released - 
Application Due - 
Notification of Winners - 

Recent Recipients

PI: Kelly Goldsmith, MD

Co-PI: Trent Spencer, PhD

Project Title: A Phase I Study of Allogeneic Ex Vivo Expanded Gamma Delta (γδ) T Cells in Combination with Dinutuximab, Temozolomide, and Zoledronate in Children with Refractory or Relapsed Neuroblastoma


PI: Tobey MacDonald, MD

Co-PI: Kavita Dhodapkar, MD

Project Title: AflacST1901 A Phase I Study of WP1066 in Children with Refractory and Progressive or Recurrent Malignant Brain Tumors


PI: Melinda Pauly, MD

Co-PI(s): Thomas Alexander, MD, MPH (UNC), William G. Blum, MD (Emory), Joshua Zeidner, MD (UNC)

Project Title: An Open-Label Evaluation Phase 1 Trial of the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of MRX-2843 in Adolescents and Adults with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, or Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia


PI: Kathryn Sutton, MD

Co-PI: W. Thomas Cash, MD, MSc

Project Title: A Maintenance Protocol of Sirolimus in Combination with Metronomic Chemotherapy in Children with High-Risk Solid Tumors


PI: Kirsten Williams, MD

Co-PI: Muna Qayed, MD, MSc

Project Title: CD19/22 CARPOOL: Phase I trial of CD19/22 Chimeric Antigen Receptor Protocol with Objective of Tolerability in relapsed/refractory B-ALL

PI: Bree Eaton, MD

Co-PI(s): Hyunsuk Shim, PhD (Winship) and Claire Mazaewski, MD (Aflac Cancer Center)

Project Title: Spectroscopic MRI for the management of pediatric high-grade glioma patients

 


PI: Edwin Horwitz, MD, PhD

Co-PI(s): Muna Qayed, MD, MSc

Project Title: Interferon γ-Primed Mesenchymal Stromal Cells as Prophylaxis for Acute Graft v Host Disease after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies and Myelodysplasia

PI: Robert Craig Castellino, MD

Co-PI(s): Tobey MacDonald, MD

Project Title: First-in-Child Phase I Trial of MinnelideTM in Malignant Pediatric Brain Tumors

 


PI: Tobey MacDonald, MD

Co-PI(s): Robert Craig Castellino, MD

Project Title: Repurposing Atovaquone for the Treatment of Pediatric Malignant Brain Tumors

 


PI: Dolly Aguilera, MD

Co-PI(s): Claire Mazewski, MD, Tobey MacDonald, MD, Robert Craig Castellino, MD, Kavita Dhodapkar, MD

Project Title: Phase II, Prospective Trial of Poly-ICLC (Hiltonol) Treatment in Children and Young Adults With Progressive Low-Grace Gliomas

 


PI: Muna Qayed, MD, MSCR

Co-Pi(s): Nirali Shah, MD, MHSc (National Cancer Institute), Marie Bleakley, MD, PhD (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center),

Project Title: CAR T-cells for Long-TermCure: A Risk-Based Approach to Post CD19 CAR T-cell Consolidation with Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Pediatric, Adolescents and Young Adult B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

 


PI: W. Thomas Cash, MD, MSc

Co-PI(s): Lara Davis, MD (Oregon Health & Science University), J. Andrew Livingstone, MD (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center), Bree Eaton, MD, Megan Durham, MD (Emory University/Children’s)

Project Title: Pilot Study of atezolizumab in combination with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and surgery in pediatric and AYA patients with pulmonary recurrence of osteosarcoma

PI: Sunil Raikar, MD

Co-PI(s): Kirsten Williams, MD, H. Trent Spencer, PhD

Project Title: Third-party allogeneic gamma delta T-cells for relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

 


PI: W. Thomas Cash, MD, MSc

Co-PI(s): Jason Yustein, MD, PhD

Project Title: A Phase 1b Study of Tegavivint, a TBL1 inhibitor, with Gemcitabine in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Relapsed or Refractory Osteosarcoma

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Mon May 121:00PM-2:00PM
CCIV Seminar- Devyani Joshi
Thu May 1510:00AM-4:00PM
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Mon May 191:00PM-2:00PM
CCIV Seminar- Ashish Sharma
Mon Jun 21:00PM-2:00PM
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Mon Jun 91:00PM-2:00PM
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