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September in the US is Childhood Cancer Awareness month. Incidence of invasive pediatric cancers is up 29% in the past 20 years as reported by Director of National Institute of Health 2010. Each year around 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer in the US, that’s more than a classroom of children a day. 35,000 children are currently in treatment for cancer. We at British Friends of Bar-Ilan University are raising money in order to help find treatment and cure. 

Bar-Ilan University (http://www.biu.ac.il) is the fastest-growing institution of higher education in Israel and celebrating six decades of excellence in both education and research.

A registered UK Charity (314139), the British Friends of Bar-Ilan University (http://www.bfbiu.org) is the face of the University in the UK. As the official representative of Bar-Ilan, the BFBIU is aimed at promoting the activities and growth of the University.

Cancer is a major area of research at Bar-Ilan's School of Medicine, a leading pioneer of research among them Childhood Cancer. At Bar-Ilan there are three young cancer researchers renown as one of the best in the world today:

Dr. Achia Urbach- Investigating how tumors form in children and how it can be prevented. Joined the University from Harvard Medical School.

Professor Izhak Haviv- Developing ways to tailor cancer treatment to individual patients (children). Joined from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia and won support from US Department of Defense.

Dr. Avraham Samson- Designing new kind of drugs to cure cancer. Joined from Stanford University.

Your kind donation will help the above researchers to find treatment and/or cure and will make a difference.  

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