Recognising researchers this International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8th March) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.
The focus of International Women’s Day continues all year - so we celebrate the female scientists who work tirelessly to fight childhood cancer. Thanks to your generous donations, we can fund vital research into neuroblastoma, to develop new, more effective and kinder treatment for children with this rare and often aggressive cancer.
We asked three of our female funded researchers about what motivates them in their work.
Dr Perla Pucci
“My motivation comes from the passion for my work and the hope that one day the problem of cancer treatment resistance will be solved...I hope that improving neuroblastoma treatment will reduce the short and long-term side effects of toxic drugs, which affect children’s lives, even in more easy to treat cases.”
Dr Karin Straathof
“I want children to be cured of neuroblastoma and to live a happy, healthy life...My research has been inspired by seeing children and their families on the ward. These young patients have really intensive treatment and spend lots of time in hospital, so we really need to come up with different, kinder ways to treat them and reduce the long-term side effects.”
Dr Suzanne Turner
“My motivation lies in building a research programme that addresses the clinical issues affecting children with cancer in real-time. I hope that by taking the small steps that we take everyday in our lab, that we will find and develop better approaches towards the treatment of children with cancer.”
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