The Foundation has approved a grant to Dr Mark Souweidane of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York in the amount of $266,400

A grant of $75,000 has been awarded to Dr Viola Caretti, from the lab of Dr Michelle Monje at Stanford University to fund a study entitled ‘Non-cell Autonomous Effects in Pediatric Pontine Gliomas'.

The Foundation has extended an offer of US$85,000 to an international consortium of DIPG researchers.

The Foundation has extended a second £90,000 grant to Dr Chris Jones at The Institute of Cancer Research for the study entitled ‘The role of ACVR1/ALK2 mutations in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma'.

The Foundation has approved its first UK research grant of £90,000 to Dr Chris Jones at The Institute of Cancer Research to study the role of ACVR1/ALK2 mutations in DIPG.

The Foundation awards a grant of $180,000 to Dr Michelle Monje, Stanford University, to study a combinatorial approach to target cellular subpopulations in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.