ST PETERSBURG, Fla. - Governor DeSantis awards Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital $7.5 million in funding for pediatric cancer research.

Working to find a cure and new ways to treat pediatric cancer is more than a job for Dr. Cassandra Josephson. Her brother survived pediatric cancer.

"It was one of the reasons I became a pediatric hematologist and oncologist," she said.

Now, Dr. Josephson, Director of the Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute and a professor of Oncology, Pediatrics and Pathology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says a $7.5 million grant the state just awarded to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital will help others beat it too.

"This is just going to really catapult us as Florida into a new place," Dr. Josephson said.

Monday, Governor Ron DeS

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