Research

And Grants

To further our mission, we annually award research grants to institutions and medical professionals whose research focuses on cancers that present the greatest opportunities for a homerun cancer cure.

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The Cure Starts Now has funded $22,574,694 in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 139 grants at over 100 hospitals in 17 countries.




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.

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

Amount
$100,000.00
Date
February 2015

Epigenetic alterations as therapeutic targets in pediatric brain tumors

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Cincinnati Children's Hospital - $176,186

Amount
$176,186.00
Date
November 2014

International DIPG Registry

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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.

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VU University Medical Center - $30,529

Amount
$30,529.00
Date
September 2014

European DIPG Registry

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Institute of Cancer Research - $95,325

Amount
$95,325.00
Date
September 2014

The evolutionary dynamics of DIPG

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The Hospital of Sick Children - $99,400

Amount
$99,400.00
Date
September 2014

Development of subgroup-specific models of paediatric DIPG

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Duke University Medical Center - $85,394

Amount
$85,394.00
Date
November 2013

Development of peptide vaccine for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

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Yale University - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00
Date
November 2013

Pre-Clinical Development of Novel DIPG Radiosensitizers

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Monash Institute of Medical Research - $99,620

Amount
$99,620.00
Date
November 2013

Targeted Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy for DIPG

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Cincinnati Children's Hospital - $205,000

Amount
$205,000.00
Date
November 2013

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

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Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00
Date
November 2013

Ex-vivo expanded natural killer (NK) cells to target DIPG tumor cells in pre-clinical studies

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The Hospital of Sick Children - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00
Date
November 2013

Investigating Mechanisms of Therapeutic Resistance in DIPG.

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - $50,000

Amount
$50,000.00
Date
November 2013

Phase II Trial of Molecularly Determined Treatment of Children and Young Adults with Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas.

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Texas Children's Cancer Center - $100,000

Amount
$100,000.00
Date
November 2013

Targeting DIPGs in vivo in Intra-brain Stem Xenograft Mouse Models through Combined Radiation and Oncolytic Viral Therapy.

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