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The Cure Starts Now has funded $27,765,156 USD in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 188 grants at over 100 hospitals in 29 countries.

Note: All Grants Are U.S. Funded Through 2018

Columbia University Irving Medical Center – $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Targeting DIPG Through Therapeutic Dietary Intervention

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Monash University – $100,000 USD / $149,912.70 AUD

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Exploiting Nucleolar Vulnerabilities in Paediatric High-Grade Gliomas

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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Identifying Novel Treatment Combinations Targeting ERK Signaling Dependence in Pediatric Glioma

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University of Virginia Medical Center – $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Targeting Alternatively Activated Macrophages in Diffuse Midline Glioma

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The University of Sydney – $100,000 USD / $149,912.70 AUD

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Targeting mitochondrial metabolism as a novel therapeutic strategy for treatment of Diffuse Midline Gliomas

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Kiragen Bio – $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Engineering Suppression-Resistant CAR-T Cells for the Treatment of Pediatric DIPG by Overcoming the Tumor Microenvironment

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Children’s Hospital Colorado – $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Targeting DMG Microenvironment with LSD1 Inhibitors

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Erasmus University Medical Center – $200,000 USD (€169,884.56)

Amount
$200,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Target-first: Development and Optimization of Targeted Radiopharmaceutical Therapies for Pediatric Brain Tumors; A World-First Translational Study

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Emory University Hospital – $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Sumoylation as a Novel Therapeutic Target in DIPG

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Children’s Hospital Colorado – $99,974

Amount
$99,974.00 USD
Date
December 2025

A Diffuse Midline Glioma Combination/Multimodality Clinical Trial and Investigation

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Emory University Hospital – $200,000

Amount
$200,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Advancing T Cell Therapy for DMG Using Tumor-Directed Gamma Delta T Cells and TLR7/8 Agonist Immunomodulation

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital – $200,000

Amount
$200,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Intranasal Delivery of Oncolytic Virus in DMG

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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – $99,000

Amount
$99,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Proinflammatory Myeloid Cells with GD2.CAR as Immunotherapy for High Grade Gliomas, Including Pediatric Diffuse Midline Gliomas

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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

Imaging of DMG Stem Cells Using Mannose-Weighted CEST MRI

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Children's National Medical Center – $200,000

Amount
$200,000.00 USD
Date
December 2025

“Targeted and Tuned: GPNMB/B7H3 Dual-Targeting CAR T-Cells With Focused Ultrasound for Potent Immunotherapy in Pediatric Gliomas

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