Blog | Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative

From Its Computational Roots, Treehouse Branches Out And Into The Lab

by | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog

Anouk van den Bout (L), Camille Cooley and Holly Beale (R) pose in the new Vaske Lab. van den Bout will be taking over lab management from Cooley during summer, 2019. A three-year, $450,000 grant awarded by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in...

Data sharing for pediatric cancers

by aasen | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog

Science Magazine | March 15, 2019 | Olena Morozova Vaske and David Haussler Last month, in a conference call held by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health (NIH), it was revealed that a large focus of President Trump’s...

Investiture ceremony honors Dr. Vaske, inaugural holder of the Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics

by | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog

February 19, 2019 Investiture is a formal ceremony designed to publicly recognize both faculty members who are appointed to named professorships and the generous donors who made these appointments possible. Recently, we had the opportunity to celebrate our co-founder...

Synovial Sarcoma and Treehouse

by amorgan | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog

The Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative is working to change the story for childhood cancer patients by leveraging genomic data and computational approaches to identify less toxic and more effective treatments. We do this by analyzing a child’s cancer data against...

2018 Treehouse’s Brave the Shave Fundraiser Recap

by aasen | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog

THANK YOU!!!We want to express our gratitude and congratulate the participants in our 2018 St. Baldrick’s #BraveTheShave event, raising funds to conquer kids cancer! Collectively, we raised more than $10,000 and shaved dozens of heads in the process. There is...

Meet the Shavees from 2017

by | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog

Featured Photo caption: (Left to right) Ellen Kephart, Kevin Karplus, Andrew Blair, Rob Currie, Vinay Poodari and Mark Akeson went bald in 2017, helping raise more than $12,000 for Treehouse’s Brave the Shave Fundraiser, sponsored by the Genomics Institute...