Research is critical when it comes to battling hard-to-treat childhood cancers. The Childrens Foundation has contributed two research grants: One to develop new treatments for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), when a childs bone marrow makes abnormal cells; the other focusing on neuroblastoma, which starts in nerve cells and forms tumors in various parts of the body. The Childrens Foundation has supported a number of grants focused on Oncology & Cardiac Research. These grants support experiential and ground breaking technology that has helped find new ways to monitor infants with complex heart defects, improve outcomes for young catheterization patients and develop new procedures and treatment for pediatric heart surgery.