Collaborative Partners

The Sunshine Project consists of a coalition of the nation’s leading pediatric oncologists, pathologists, biologists and medical information technology specialists who collaborate in an effort to find less toxic, more targeted treatments for pediatric cancer.

The Sunshine Project Leadership:

Founding Principal Investigators
Richard Jove, PhD
Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center;
Chair and Professor, Division of Molecular Medicine
Co-Director, Experimental Therapeutics Program
City of Hope, Los Angeles

G. Douglas Letson, MD
Division Chief, Sarcoma
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa

Participating Institutions

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
All Children's Hospital of St. Petersburg

MD Anderson Cancer Center - Orlando

St. Joseph's Children's Hospital - Tampa

The Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY

University of Florida

University of Miami

The Sunshine Project also collaborates with the Pediatric Oncology Experimental Therapeutics Investigators Consortium (POETIC) on the clinical trials component of the project. POETIC promotes the early clinical development of promising therapies for the treatment of children, adolescents and young adults with cancer, and includes:

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ
Southern Alberta Children's Cancer Program, Calgary, Alberta Canada
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center/The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO
University of Florida Shands Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN