Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, who was recently awarded a $5,000 Summer Fellowship from the St. Baldricks’s Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, to fund a student in his lab this summer. Nicholas Mohrdieck, currently completing the junior year of his undergraduate studies, will work in Dr. Capitini’s lab on the project, “Vaccine and checkpoint blockade after allogeneic BMT for neuroblastoma,” with the goal of discovering whether a combination of anti-PD1 inhibitors with an engineered costimulatory vaccine may be an effective strategy to induce apoptosis of neuroblastoma tumor cells. This approach seeks to increase T cell and NK-mediated cytokine production and cytotoxicity and investigate whether anti-tumor effects after bone marrow transplant (BMT) are enhanced.