Florida Awards $30 Million to Four Children’s Hospitals for Pediatric Cancer Research and Care

Overview

• Each hospital — Johns Hopkins All Children’s (St. Petersburg), Nicklaus Children’s (Miami), Wolfson Children’s (Jacksonville) and Nemours Children’s (Orlando) — will receive $7.5 million.
• The funding comes from the FY2025–26 budget’s $30 million pediatric cancer incubator run through the Cancer Connect Collaborative Research Incubator at the Department of Health.
• First Lady Casey DeSantis said the program is intended to run for five years, framing the effort as a multi‑year commitment.
• Wolfson Children’s officials said they plan to launch a home‑delivery chemotherapy program to expand access to treatment.
• Lawmakers created the pediatric incubator as a separate stream after declining to shift existing NCI center funds, with officials citing gaps in Florida’s pediatric oncology capacity.