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Hosts Dr. Tim Cripe and Dr. Brenda Weigel met with Dr. Gilles Vassal and Patricia Blanc on the ACCELERATE Platform: Innovation for Children and Adolescents with Cancer. Dr. Gilles Vassal is the head of Clinical Research at Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France & he is also the Chair for the ACCELERATE Steering Committee. Patricia Blanc is the President & Founder of the Imagine for Margo Foundation and serves as a Patient Advocate for ACCELERATE. Listen in to hear how the ACCELERATE platform came to be & the advances they are making within the childhood cancer research landscape. The ACCELERATE international platform provides a transparent forum to discuss and address, in a timely fashion, overarching issues in the development of innovative anticancer medicines for children and adolescents with cancer. To learn more about ACCELERATE, please visit: https://www.accelerate-platform.org/