Research
And Grants
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The Cure Starts Now has funded $24,934,877 (USD) in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 161 grants at over 100 hospitals in 29 countries.
Children's National Medical Center - $200,000
$200,000.00
October 2015
Evaluating TORC1/2 kinase inhibition in murine and nonhuman primate (NHP) models
European DIPG Registry - $445,870.12
$445,870.00
September 2015
European DIPG Registry.
Institute of Cancer Research - $99,470
$99,470.00
September 2015
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.
Stanford University Medical Center - $200,000
$200,000.00
September 2015
Targeting neuronal activity-regulated DIPG infiltration
International DIPG Registry - $699,935
$699,935.00
August 2015
Establishment of an International Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Registry
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago - $50,000
$50,000.00
April 2015
Increased Tenascin-C (TNC) protein expression in tumor tissue and CSF in DIPG patients
Stanford University - $50,000
$50,000.00
April 2015
Tumor Associated Microglia in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
Children's Cancer Institute - $81,683
$81,683.00
February 2015
Facilitates Chromatin Transcription Complex (FACT): A novel therapeutic target against Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center - $100,000
$100,000.00
February 2015
Epigenetic alterations as therapeutic targets in pediatric brain tumors
Cincinnati Children's Hospital - $176,186
$176,186.00
November 2014
International DIPG Registry
University of California, San Francisco - $100,000
$100,000.00
September 2014
Single-cell profiling and targeting of developmentally regulated signaling programs in DIPG.
VU University Medical Center - $30,529
$30,529.00
September 2014
European DIPG Registry
Institute of Cancer Research - $95,325
$95,325.00
September 2014
The evolutionary dynamics of DIPG
The Hospital of Sick Children - $99,400
$99,400.00
September 2014
Development of subgroup-specific models of paediatric DIPG
Duke University Medical Center - $85,394
$85,394.00
November 2013
Development of peptide vaccine for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma