The St. Baldrick's Foundation will give researcher Dr. Sinisa Dovat $5,000 to mentor a young investigator in pediatric cancer research this summer. The foundation’s Summer Fellow grant provides funding for a medical school or college student to work in a pediatric oncology research lab for one summer.
Michael Palm and Devin Pulaski are strangers, but both their lives have turned on a fulcrum only survivors like them can understand. From Feb. 15 to 17, during the biggest event for the world’s largest student-run philanthropy to support children with cancer and their families, they crossed another threshold together.
More than 40 Penn State New Kensington students traveled to University Park for the culminating THON 2019 event held Feb. 15-17.
Michael Healy, a senior kinesiology major at Penn State, rode his bike from Hershey to University Park in one day to raise money for THON.
Penn State Football is teaming up with THON for the annual THON Football game this Saturday, Nov. 10, when the Nittany Lions' contest against the Wisconsin Badgers will be changing tradition by adding the Penn State Dance Marathon (THON) logo to the team’s helmets in support of the fight to conquer childhood cancer.
Four Diamonds Mini-THON and the Pennsylvania Association of Student Councils have announced a strategic partnership to expand leadership opportunities and benefits for their students and schools by uniting in their shared goals of empowering students, developing leaders and inspiring acts of service.
Fighting for his life is something Jimmy Clark, 25, understands well. A cancer survivor, Clark will host the ninth annual Poker with Jimmy, a No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament on Sunday, Nov. 11. The tournament has raised more than $75,000 over the past eight years, for THON and the Four Diamonds Fund (through THON) at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital for children battling pediatric cancer. This year’s event takes place at the Goodwill Fire Company, 2318 S. Queen St., York, Pennsylvania. Doors open at 10 a.m. with play beginning at 11 a.m.
When he was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014, Four Diamonds child Josiah Garcia turned to his best friend to help him feel less like a kid with cancer, and more like just a kid.
“It’s hard to comprehend that this is the last treatment I’ll be getting. Right now, it feels kind of surreal.”
Cole Horne's experience as a patient with Four Diamonds at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has led him back to the place where he learned how to treat others.
For Cole Horne, being diagnosed with Burkett’s Lymphoma at age 6 was a life-changing moment. Today this childhood cancer survivor is back at Penn State Health, this time as an employee, drawn back because of the excellent support he and his family received from the staff and Four Diamonds.
As Four Diamonds Mini-THON commemorates 25 years of helping families in the fight against childhood cancer, the program is celebrating the success of students, teachers and the community in raising more than $36 million over the last quarter century.
Multi-colored handprints marked the day as Hyundai Hope on Wheels presented Penn State Children's Hospital and Dr. Barbara Miller with a check for $100,000 toward pediatric cancer research.
Ten former Penn State Children’s Hospital cancer patients gathered at the Tree House Café to celebrate school graduations — and survivorship — at Four Diamonds’ annual ceremony on June 19.
In what has become an annual tradition, the Penn State football team took a break from summer workouts to visit Four Diamonds patients, their families and the staff at the Children's Hospital at Penn State Hershey on June 21.
