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 $25,466,182 (USD) in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 170 grants at over 100 hospitals in 29 countries.

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

Yale University - $100,000
$100,000.00
November 2013
Pre-Clinical Development of Novel DIPG Radiosensitizers

Monash Institute of Medical Research - $99,620
$99,620.00
November 2013
Targeted Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy for DIPG

Cincinnati Children's Hospital - $205,000
$205,000.00
November 2013
Establishment of an International Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Registry

Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - $100,000
$100,000.00
November 2013
Ex-vivo expanded natural killer (NK) cells to target DIPG tumor cells in pre-clinical studies

The Hospital of Sick Children - $100,000
$100,000.00
November 2013
Investigating Mechanisms of Therapeutic Resistance in DIPG.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - $50,000
$50,000.00
November 2013
Phase II Trial of Molecularly Determined Treatment of Children and Young Adults with Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas.