The Foundation has awarded £350,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSH Charity) for researchers at University College London (UCL) and GOSH who hope to develop a new treatment for an aggressive type of brain tumour, diffuse midline glioma (DMG), until recently known as DIPG or Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, using a patient’s own immune system to attack the cancer cells.
Read MoreThe Foundation has made a further grant of US$200K to Professor Chris Jones to support his continued research into ACVR1 mutations, which will now begin preclinical study of single or combination agent ACVR1 inhibitors.
Read MoreThe Foundation has awarded a grant of $130,000 to the Paediatric Brain Tumour Consortium for a Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Panobinostat in Children with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.
Read MoreThe Foundation has approved a grant to Dr Mark Souweidane of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York in the amount of $266,400
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