This summer, Kyle MacQuarrie, MD, PhD, Attending Physician, Hematology, Oncology, Neuro-Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, will mentor a student intern supported by funds from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program.
Logan Mansfield, an undergraduate student at Loyola University, will assist Dr. MacQuarrie on a project examining how a chemosensitizing drug may be changing the organization of chromatin and the nucleus when rhabdomyosarcoma cells are exposed to it. Dr. MacQuarrie’s research focuses on how chromosomal organization in rhabdomyosarcoma cells affects tumor resistance to chemotherapy, with the hopes of identifying ways to sensitize resistant tumor cells to chemotherapy and improve the treatment of children diagnosed with these types of tumors. Logan’s goal is to become a physician-scientist who specializes in pediatric oncology.
The Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program funds the time that summer interns spend at research institutes, universities, or medical schools, provides programming to them, and gives them the opportunity to learn about the field pediatric oncology and the careers it offers.
Dr. MacQuarrie is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Pediatric research at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is conducted through Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute.
