Research
And Grants
Note: When clicking the "Submit Grant Application" button below you will be redirected to SnapGrant.com to complete the application process.
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.

Texas Children's Cancer Center - $100,000
$100,000.00
November 2013
Targeting DIPGs in vivo in Intra-brain Stem Xenograft Mouse Models through Combined Radiation and Oncolytic Viral Therapy.

Children's National Medical Center - $99,979
$99,979.00
November 2013
Comparative Proteomic and RNA Sequencing of DIPGs

Sydney Children's Hospital - $100,000
$100,000.00
January 2013
Research of treatments for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

Stanford University Medical Center - $35,589
$35,589.00
October 2012
A Combinatorial Approach to Target Cellular Subpopulations in DIPG

Texas Children's Cancer Center - $100,000
$100,000.00
October 2012
Preclinical Evaluation of Novel BMI-1 Inhibitors In Vivo in Intra-Brainstem Orthotopic Xenograft Mouse Models

St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital - $15,000
$15,000.00
October 2012
Establishment and Characterization of Renewable Tissue Resources for DIPG Research

DIPG Registry - $219,000
$219,000.00
January 2012
Establishment of an International DIPG Registry

Texas Children's Cancer Center - $100,000
$100,000.00
November 2011
Eliminating Therapy-Resistant Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas with Oncolytic Picorna Virus SVV-001

Duke University - $82,049
$82,049.00
November 2011
Preclinical Evaluation of Systemic and Direct Delivery of a PDGFR-Alpha Antibody

Doernbecher Children's Hospital - $100,000
$100,000.00
November 2011
Rapid Preclinical Development of a Targeted Therapy Combination for DIPG.

Sydney Children's Hospital - $100,000
$100,000.00
August 2011
Robotic screening for novel therapies for diffuse pontine gliomas

St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital - $35,000
$35,000.00
September 2010
PI3K signaling effectors in DIPG

Cincinnati Children's Hospital - $35,000
$35,000.00
September 2010
Establishment of a pre-clinical model for pediatric glioblastoma

Cincinnati Children's Hospital - $75,000
$75,000.00
March 2010
Telomerase: A Therapeutic Target in Pediatric Brain Tumors

Weill Cornell Medical College - $91,740
$91,740.00
March 2010
Phase I Study of tumor-targeting Convection-Enhanced Delivery (CED) of radio immunotherapy for Diffuse Pontine Glioma in Children.