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The Cure Starts Now follows an extensive grant approval process to ensure your dollars make the biggest impact to homerun cancer research. Take comfort in knowing that The Cure Starts Now only funds: research that follows our mission, research that is non-duplicative, and research that is financially sound.

Grant Approval Process

Grant Approval Process

The Cure Starts Now has funded $30,229,360 USD in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 199 grants at over 100 hospitals in 29 countries.






Children's National Medical Center - $200,000

Amount
$200,000.00 USD
Date
October 2017

Validation of TAK228 as an effective drug for treating children with DIPG

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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
October 2017

Determine the efficacy of BMP and MEK inhibitors with RT to treat ACVR1 mutant DIPG

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Anschutz Medical Campus - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00 USD
Date
September 2017

Toward a Multimodality Cure for DIPG: Investigation of Intratumoral Drug Penetration and Craniospinal Irradiation.

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Massachusetts General Hospital - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00 USD
Date
September 2017

Repurposing Mefloquine for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Therapy

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CONNECT Consortium - $893,678.37

Amount
$893,678.00 USD
Date
September 2017

CONNECT (COllaborative Network for NEurooncology Clinical Trials) Consortium

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University of Massachusetts Medical School - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00 USD
Date
May 2017

Advanced RNAi therapeutics for DIPG

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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00 USD
Date
May 2017

Cellular Cybercriminals: DIPG Hacks into the Neural Communication Infrastructure

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Hospital for Sick Children - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00 USD
Date
September 2016

MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound: Targeted Drug Delivery in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

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Gustave Roussy Cancer Center - $93,071

Amount
$93,071.00 USD
Date
September 2016

Ultrasound-induced delivery of Panobinostat in preclinical models

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The Hospital for Sick Children - $194,260

Amount
$194,260.00 USD
Date
September 2016

Exploring the interactome of H3K27M to find therapeutic targets for DIPG

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
September 2016

Allele-specific antisense therapy for DIPG

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Children's Cancer Institute - $143,884 USD / $190,718 AUD (Approx)

Amount
$143,884.00 USD
Date
September 2016

Radiosensitisation of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas by modulating the glucose metabolism

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2015

Characterizing resistance mechanisms to radiation therapy and adjuvant chemotherapy in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2015

An early Phase 2 Study of LEE011, a CDK4/6 Inhibitor, following radiation therapy in Children with Newly Diagnosed non-biopsied Diffuse Pontine Gliomas (DIPG) and Rb+ biopsied DIPG and High Grade Gliomas (HGG)

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Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital - $200,000

Amount
$200,000.00 USD
Date
December 2015

Targeting DIPGs through Super-activation of Steroid Receptor Co-activators: An in vivo Study in Patient-derived Intra-brain Stem Xenograft Mouse Models

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