The Lilabean Foundation for Pediatric Brain Cancer Research was started by Nicole Giroux in honor of her daughter, Lila, who was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer at just 15 months old and underwent five years of treatment.
Now, thanks to a $10 million donation from Amazon Web Services, the foundation will be able to accelerate research on brain cancer and other rare diseases in children's health, Mashable reports.
The money will be divided between three organizations: Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC; Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio; and the Children's Brain Tumor Network at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
"We're so excited by the initiative that AWS is launching because it dovetails so perfectly into our narrative that despite being a rare disease, pediatric cancers truly provide a unique proving ground for new technology because of their dependency on real-time discovery and collaborative networks," the director of the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at CHOP tells Mashable.
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