Sadly, when these tumors come back there is no good treatment available and most of these children die. Unfortunately, tumors rapidly become resistant and return more aggressively. Most of these new drugs initially show great efficacy. A handful of new drugs have been tested in the last few years in patients with medulloblastoma. Thus, scientists are trying to finding new therapies that are more effective and less toxic. While doctors can cure most of these children, the treatments are very toxic and negatively impact these patients and their families for the rest of their lives. Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumor in children. Overall, the project is expected to provide insights into basic mechanisms of immune-regulation, clues to pediatric inflammatory diseases, and a path to the development of new therapies.
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In this effort, we seek to reveal the role of a newly identified, early-life immune cell in establishing acceptance of commensal skin microbes. Our research will address the cross-talk between microbes and the developing immune system to elucidate the mechanisms by which the host and bacteria learn to develop a harmonious, symbiotic relationship. Remarkably little is known about the cell types that instruct immune cells to accept commensal bacteria in early life. The developing immune system must learn to tolerate these “commensal” bacteria to avoid the onset of destructive inflammatory diseases such as eczema and inflammatory bowel disease. Within days of birth, trillions of harmless, and even beneficial, bacteria colonize an infant’s skin and gut. We hope that these conclusions can lead to better understanding of individual patient leukemias and improved treatments.
We expect that successful completion of this study will improve our understanding as to why some forms of leukemia are treatable and why some are not treatable. We will use genetics to understand how the properties of normal blood stem cells are transferred to leukemia cells to impact aggressiveness. We will ask how the type of healthy blood cell impacts the behavior of the resulting leukemia. In this proposal, we will apply our experience in engineering different types of blood cells (stem cells and more mature blood cells) to become leukemic. On the other hand, if the normal blood cell does not possess such properties – it is a more mature blood cell – this leads to treatable leukemia. We believe that if a normal blood cell possessing the ability to form many other types of blood cells (in other words, it is a blood ‘stem cell’) turns into leukemia, this leukemia will be hard to treat. We believe that the type of normal blood cell that becomes leukemic impacts the behavior of individual leukemias. It is not known why some leukemias respond to treatment while others do not. However, many people with leukemia do not respond to these drugs and are at risk of dying. Leukemia is a blood cancer that can be fully treated with anti-cancer drugs in most people. Grant Rowe, MD, PhDįunded by the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund and the V Foundation Wine Celebration in honor of Bob McClenahan Understanding how SAMD9/9L mutations effect the blood stem cells will help us determine the right treatment approach for patients with pediatric MDS, because some patients with SAMD9 or SAMD9L mutations may not need treatment at all. Our proposed experiments will further determine how disease-causing mutations in SAMD9 and SAMD9L disrupt communication in these important cellular pathways. We have completed initial experiments that suggest that SAMD9 and SAMD9L are important in how cells communicate during inflammation and other immune responses. Together with our cell lines we have also developed a second set of tools that will allow us to turn on or to turn off SAMD9 or SAMD9L without using interferon-an inflammatory substance in the cell that turns on many other cell processes including SAMD9 and SAMD9L. We will perform several tests in our new model system to determine why mutations in SAMD9 and SAMD9L cause blood stem cells to die. It is important to have these new cell lines, because cells that we can obtain from patients do not grow well or for a long time making studying them very hard. There are no reliable pediatric MDS model systems, thus we have created one from a special type of stem cell that contains mutated SAMD9 or SAMD9L. The Schwartz Lab studies two genes, SAMD9 and SAMD9L that are known to cause a bone marrow failure syndrome in children called myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Funded by the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund
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