Kyle MacQuarrie, MD, PhD, Attending Physician, Hematology, Oncology, Neuro-Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, received a $5,000 award from the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program to support a summer intern in the MacQuarrie Laboratory. This is the second year in a row that Dr. MacQuarrie has been successful at securing this award for a trainee in his lab.
Sydney Vorrier, a medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who is interested in pediatric oncology, will participate in a larger funded effort in Dr. MacQuarrie’s lab investigating chemotherapy resistance in rhabdomyosarcoma cells. Specifically, Dr. MacQuarrie’s research on chemoresistance focuses on the role that nuclear and genomic organization in rhabdomyosarcoma cells plays in tumor resistance to chemotherapy.
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.
