COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A nonprofit that primarily works with funding new pediatric cancer therapies has pledged the largest amount ever received to Prisma Health Midlands.

Curing Kids Cancer pledged $5 million to help fund new pediatric cancer research being led by Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in partnership with the College of Pharmacy at the University of South Carolina.

Along with the pledge, Curing Kids Cancer created a new endowment with Prisma Health Midlands Foundation called “Killian’s Hope for a United South Carolina,” named after Killian Owen, the late son of the non-profit’s co-founders, Gráinne and Clay Owen.

Killian passed away in 2003 at nine years old after battling leukemia.

The new endowment will help Prisma Health Children’s Hospital’s pediatric oncology team “de

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