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.


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

Amount
$200,000.00
Date
October 2015

Evaluating TORC1/2 kinase inhibition in murine and nonhuman primate (NHP) models

European DIPG Registry - $445,870.12

Amount
$445,870.00
Date
September 2015

European DIPG Registry.

Institute of Cancer Research - $99,470

Amount
$99,470.00
Date
September 2015

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.

Stanford University Medical Center - $200,000

Amount
$200,000.00
Date
September 2015

Targeting neuronal activity-regulated DIPG infiltration

International DIPG Registry - $699,935

Amount
$699,935.00
Date
August 2015

Establishment of an International Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Registry

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00
Date
April 2015

Increased Tenascin-C (TNC) protein expression in tumor tissue and CSF in DIPG patients

Stanford University - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00
Date
April 2015

Tumor Associated Microglia in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

Children's Cancer Institute - $81,683

Amount
$81,683.00
Date
February 2015

Facilitates Chromatin Transcription Complex (FACT): A novel therapeutic target against Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.

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

Amount
$100,000.00
Date
February 2015

Epigenetic alterations as therapeutic targets in pediatric brain tumors

Cincinnati Children's Hospital - $176,186

Amount
$176,186.00
Date
November 2014

International DIPG Registry

University of California, San Francisco - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00
Date
September 2014

Single-cell profiling and targeting of developmentally regulated signaling programs in DIPG.

VU University Medical Center - $30,529

Amount
$30,529.00
Date
September 2014

European DIPG Registry

Institute of Cancer Research - $95,325

Amount
$95,325.00
Date
September 2014

The evolutionary dynamics of DIPG

The Hospital of Sick Children - $99,400

Amount
$99,400.00
Date
September 2014

Development of subgroup-specific models of paediatric DIPG

Duke University Medical Center - $85,394

Amount
$85,394.00
Date
November 2013

Development of peptide vaccine for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma