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.
Note: When clicking the "Submit Grant Application" button below you will be redirected to SnapGrant.com to complete the application process.
The Cure Starts Now has funded $18,897,055 in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 119 grants at over 100 hospitals in 17 countries.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital - $100,000
$100,000.00
October 2017
Determine the efficacy of BMP and MEK inhibitors with RT to treat ACVR1 mutant DIPG
Anschutz Medical Campus - $50,000
$50,000.00
September 2017
Toward a Multimodality Cure for DIPG: Investigation of Intratumoral Drug Penetration and Craniospinal Irradiation.
Massachusetts General Hospital - $50,000
$50,000.00
September 2017
Repurposing Mefloquine for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Therapy
CONNECT Consortium - $899,518.80
$899,518.00
September 2017
CONNECT (COllaborative Network for NEurooncology Clinical Trials) Consortium
University of Massachusetts Medical School - $50,000
$50,000.00
May 2017
Advanced RNAi therapeutics for DIPG
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford - $50,000
$50,000.00
May 2017
Cellular Cybercriminals: DIPG Hacks into the Neural Communication Infrastructure
Hospital for Sick Children - $50,000
$50,000.00
September 2016
MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound: Targeted Drug Delivery in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
Gustave Roussy Cancer Center - $93,071
$93,071.00
September 2016
Ultrasound-induced delivery of Panobinostat in preclinical models