PLGA Teams

Joey Widman's birthday party last August was all a boy could ask for: the seven-year-old's friends swam in his family's backyard pool, played games, and, that evening, munched popcorn as they watched a movie on an outdoor screen. His gifts, slipped into a box decorated with purple wrapping paper, were exactly what he did ask for: money to support the research of Dana-Farber's Mark Kieran, MD, into a new treatment for pediatric low grade astrocytoma (PLGA), a brain tumor that Joey had been diagnosed with three years earlier.