Integrative Analysis of Childhood Cancers

Treating pediatric cancers requires a robust understanding of the mechanisms of tumor growth and progression, as well as an understanding of the differences between tumor types. This project seeks to generate mutational, transcriptional, and integrative profiles of individual tumors. Researchers will compare samples to each other to find sub-groupings of samples, and determine which features define those groupings. Understanding these groupings could lead to the identification of targets for therapeutics. The purpose of these comparisons will be to further refine the set of potential gene and pathway targets for the treatment of pediatric brain cancers. Researchers will apply integrative analysis of data types to find potential novel drug targets and matching of therapeutics. The Children’s Brain Tumor Network contributed to this project by providing access to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas.