Research
And Grants
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Submit Grant ApplicationThe Cure Starts Now has funded $25,466,182 (USD) in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 170 grants at over 100 hospitals in 29 countries.
Note: All Grants Are U.S. Funded Through 2018

Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital - $200,000
$200,000.00
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

Children's National Health System and Children's Research Institute - $125,000
$125,000.00
December 2015
Comprehensive Molecular-Based Cross-Species Comparison of DIPG Biology

Boston Children's Hospital - $110,000
$110,000.00
December 2015
Enabling epigenetic therapies by exploring DIPG chromatin sensitivities

UCL Institute of Child Health - $200,000
$200,000.00
December 2015
T-cell based immunotherapy for DIPG.

Dana Farber Cancer Institute - $82,863
$82,863.00
December 2015
Discovering novel epigenetic dependencies in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

VU University Medical Center - $92,950
$92,950.00
November 2015
Liquid Biopsies for the Monitoring of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.

Children's Cancer Institute - $145,341
$145,341.00
November 2015
Fenretinide, a novel agent targeting RTK/PI3K/AKT network for the treatment of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center - $200,000
$200,000.00
October 2015
Intra-tumoral heterogeneity in diffuse intrinsic pontine and midline high-grade gliomas

The Hospital for Sick Children - $190,905
$190,905.00
October 2015
Mitochondrial DNA alterations and their potential as a novel therapeutic target in DIPG

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