Aidan Everett Davies Innovation Fund

My name is Aidan Davies. I am 17 years old. I currently live in Kingston, Pennsylvania. And I battled childhood cancer and won!

In January 2022, at 14, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. After receiving the diagnosis, my parents were certain that they wanted to have me treated at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). My treatment plan included four, three-week cycles of chemo at CHOP, as well as three weeks of Proton Therapy at Penn Medicine. As of today, after many long drives to Philly, countless hours in the infusion chair and too many scans and tests to count, I am in remission. And it’s all due to the amazing doctors, nurses, cancer researchers, administrators, staff and volunteers at CHOP. They saved my life!

In September 2022, following my treatment and subsequent remission status, the Invisible Prince Foundation made an incredibly generous lead gift of $1M to establish the Aidan Everett Davies Innovation Fund at CHOP. Philanthropy is essential to the Cancer Center’s mission and allows CHOP to develop the best possible clinical and supportive care programs and pursue groundbreaking, high impact research. The fund provides unrestricted support, which allows Cancer Center leadership to identify initiatives and programs that are most in need of funding and quickly direct immediate resources to those areas. 

To date, the Aidan Everett Davies Innovation Fund has helped to fuel the research and potential development of new treatment modalities in the Teachey Lab, housed in the Center for Childhood Cancer Research. This work is focused on breakthroughs in the treatment of children and young adults with T-Cell cancers via developing new immunotherapies.

And we're only just getting started. Join us as we fight alongside the amazing people at CHOP in their efforts to someday eliminate childhood cancer.

Here is a link to an article explaining some of the research we have helped fund to date:  https://www.chop.edu/about/news-release/new-research-childrens-hospital-philadelphia-and-st-jude-poised-transform