Donna Ludwinski, Solving Kids Cancer Research Advocate
Thu Aug 28 2025
Donna is a pediatric cancer research advocate. Her son Erik battled neuroblastoma and suffered a late relapse, diagnosed in 1991 at age 6 and died in 2010 at age 24. She has been involved in the pediatric cancer community for decades. She serves on several councils including the NCI Pediatric Central Review Board, NCI Pediatric and Adolescent Solid Tumor Steering Committee, FDA Patient Representative, NANT Parent Advisory Council, prior founding Board of Directors of Coalition Against Childhood Cancer, DOD CMCRP Rare Cancers Research Programmatic Panel, SIOPEN Advocates Committee, and ACCELERATE Scientific Steering Committee. Donna has worked for Solving Kids' Cancer since 2010 managing research programs and for Solving Kids' Cancer UK supporting neuroblastoma families and on the research team since 2015, and has coauthored many peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on pediatric oncology. She enjoys mentoring young advocates. Donna has a BS in Chemical Engineering, lives in Virginia with her husband, and they have 3 surviving married children and 9 grandchildren.
Contact donna @ donna@solvingkidscancer.org
Tiffany @ info@goldribbon-kids.org
Kelly @ kelly@nationalpcf.org
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Donna is a pediatric cancer research advocate. Her son Erik battled neuroblastoma and suffered a late relapse, diagnosed in 1991 at age 6 and died in 2010 at age 24. She has been involved in the pediatric cancer community for decades. She serves on several councils including the NCI Pediatric Central Review Board, NCI Pediatric and Adolescent Solid Tumor Steering Committee, FDA Patient Representative, NANT Parent Advisory Council, prior founding Board of Directors of Coalition Against Childhood Cancer, DOD CMCRP Rare Cancers Research Programmatic Panel, SIOPEN Advocates Committee, and ACCELERATE Scientific Steering Committee. Donna has worked for Solving Kids' Cancer since 2010 managing research programs and for Solving Kids' Cancer UK supporting neuroblastoma families and on the research team since 2015, and has coauthored many peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on pediatric oncology. She enjoys mentoring young advocates. Donna has a BS in Chemical Engineering, lives in Virginia with her husband, and they have 3 surviving married children and 9 grandchildren. Contact donna @ donna@solvingkidscancer.org Tiffany @ info@goldribbon-kids.org Kelly @ kelly@nationalpcf.org Support the show