Research
And Grants
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Submit Grant ApplicationThe 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.
The Cure Starts Now has funded $25,395,277 (USD) in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 167 grants at over 100 hospitals in 29 countries.

Funding of PBTCF 2018: PBTC-058 - $16,800
$16,800.00
January 2018
PBTC-058: Phase 2 Study of Intraventricular Omburtamab-based Radioimmunotherapy for Pediatric Patients with Recurrent Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

The Campbell Family Institute for Cancer Research - $100,000
$100,000.00
October 2017
Defining the molecular mechanisms of DIPG development and progression to uncover novel therapeutic targets

Institute of Cancer Research - $102,432
$102,432.00
October 2017
Combinational strategies alongside ACVR1 inhibition in DIPG

The Regents of the University of California - $70,000
$70,000.00
October 2017
An Open Label Single Arm Phase I/II study of MTX110 delivered by convection-enhanced delivery (CED) in patients with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) previously treated with external beam radiation therapy

The Hospital for Sick Children - $100,560
$100,560.00
October 2017
MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound: Towards Clinical Translation in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

Texas Children's Hospital and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - $200,000
$200,000.00
October 2017
Targeting DIPG through Combining a Super-activator (MCB-613) of Steroid Receptor Co-activators with Radiation.

Gustave Roussy - $101,868
$101,868.00
October 2017
Elucidating the underlying mechanisms of radio resistance at diagnosis and relapse in DIPG

Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu - $98,987
$98,987.00
October 2017
Investigating the role of DIPG-derived exosomes in tumor growth and invasion

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - $100,000
$100,000.00
October 2017
Targeting EZH2 as a therapeutic strategy in DIPG

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - $82,863
$82,863.00
October 2017
Defining the Cellular Architecture of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma through Large-Scale Single-cell RNA-sequencing analyses

The Hospital of Sick Children - $162,828
$162,828.00
October 2017
Targeting DIPG through pharmacological activation of mitochondrial biogenesis: an in vitro and in vivo preclinical study

Stanford University - $200,000
$200,000.00
October 2017
Targeting neuronal activity regulated DIPG infiltration

Children's Cancer Institute (AU) - $185,706
$185,706.00
October 2017
Developing novel combination therapeutic approaches for DIPG targeting Polo-like Kinase 1

Children's National Medical Center - $200,000
$200,000.00
October 2017
Validation of TAK228 as an effective drug for treating children with DIPG

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital - $100,000
$100,000.00
October 2017
Determine the efficacy of BMP and MEK inhibitors with RT to treat ACVR1 mutant DIPG