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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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Therapeutic targeting of the PBAF chromatin remodeling complex in diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas

2022 Post-doctoral Fellowship Grant
Mateus Mota, University of Michigan
Mentors: Sriram Venneti

Epigenetic regulation of phenotypic plasticity in DIPG

2021 New Investigator Grant
Michael Koldobskiy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Epigenetically activated ID1 is a key transcriptional regulator of DIPG Invasion and is targetable with cannabidiol.

2021 New Investigator Grant
Vivekanand Yadav, University of Michigan

Targeting T-cell intrinsic and extrinsic regulators to improve T cell therapies in DIPGs

2021 New Investigator Grant
Giedre Krenciute, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Use of H3(K27M) – Driven Zebrafish Models to Identify Targetable Vulnerabilities in DIPG

2021 New Investigator Grant
Jessica Blackburn, University of Kentucky

Metabolic therapies for DIPGs

2021 Game Changer Grant
Sriram Venetti, University of Michigan

MYC activation in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas

2021 Game Changer Grant
Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Co-funded by SoSo Strong Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation

Oncolytic Immunotherapy for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas

2021 Game Changer Grant
Marta Alonso, Clinica Universidad de Navarra

Targeting DIPG using novel CAR-T cell therapy

2021 Game Changer Grant
Sujatha Venkataraman, University of Colorado Denver

DMG-ACT — From Vision to Clinical Activation

2021 Special Project Grant
Sabine Mueller, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC)
Carl Koschmann
Javad Nazarian
Co-funded by Zatkoff Family Legacy Fund