Hyundai’s Hope on Wheels campaign awarded Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego a $250,000 grant Tuesday to honor childhood cancer awareness month.
The Hyundai Scholar Grant will go toward funding childhood cancer research at the hospital.
The grant was awarded Tuesday morning at the Hope On Wheels Handprint Ceremony, which commemorated San Diego children affected by cancer by capturing their handprints on a Hyundai Tucson.
"I think this is a day of hope," UC San Diego M.D. Cathie Jamieson said in a statement. "With this kind of realization of major funding for early collaborative work we can work together...to really make a major dent in the major cause of death from cancer in children, and that's relapse."
Rady Childrens' Hospital has been conducting cancer research with UC San Diego through an extensive partnership formed in 2001.
The Hope On Wheels campaign will award $10.5 million this month to support 45 pediatric cancer research projects across the country.
