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ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation’s Funded Grants

ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation funds the most promising childhood brain cancer research across the globe. To date, the foundation, along with their partners and donors, has funded over 90 researchers, across 44 institutions, totaling over $36 million.

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Dissecting mechanisms of radio resistance associated with p53 mutations in DIPG

2022 New Investigator Grant
Zach Reitman, Duke University

Exploring copper chelation as a novel epigenetic therapeutic strategy for DIPG

2022 New Investigator Grant
Orazio Vittorio, University of New South Wales

Targeting the electrical vulnerabilities of DIPG by modulating the neuronal microenvironment

2022 New Investigator Grant
Humsa Venkatesh, The Brigham and Women's Hospital

A clinically translatable nanotherapeutic approach to enhance BBB drug delivery in DIPG

2022 Game Changer Grant
Praveen Raju, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Oren Becher

Development of a Comprehensive Direct Drug Delivery Platform for the Treatment of Diffuse Midline Glioma

2022 Game Changer Grant
Mark Souweidane, Weill Cornell Medical College

Targeting Diffuse Midline Gliomas with Rational Combination Therapy

2022 Game Changer Grant
Richard Lu, University of Cincinnati

Advancing data analyses of DMG tumors

2022 Special Project Grant

DMG-ACT — Building a Discovery Engine Around the Trial

2022 Special Project Grant
Sabine Mueller, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC)
Javad Nazarian
Carl Koschmann
Co-funded by Zatkoff Family Legacy Fund

Neuro-Immuno-Oncology Fellowship & CAR T Research Expansion

2022 Special Project Grant
Michelle Monje, Stanford University
Co-funded by Austin Strong Foundation, Storm the Heavens Fund, SoSo Strong Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and Elle's Angels Foundation

Targeted Protein Degradation of LSD1 as a Therapeutic Strategy in DIPG

2022 Post-doctoral Fellowship Grant
Andrew Groves, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Mentors: Mariella Filbin