Childhood Cancer

Brain Tumors

Brain tumors can be low-grade, which tend to grow more slowly, or high-grade with faster growth rates and more commonly spread into normal brain tissue. There are several rare types and sub-types of pediatric brain tumors.

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The influence of the raphe nucleus and serotonin on progression of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
Richard Drexler, MD/PhD, Principal Investigator
Stanford University
Young Investigator Grants, Awarded 2024
Unraveling GABAergic interneuron-like lineage in H3G34-mutant hemispheric high-grade gliomas: their impact on network formation and invasion
Gustavo Alencastro Veiga Cruzeiro, PhD, Principal Investigator
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Young Investigator Grants, Awarded 2024
Understanding the role of CDK8 in protein synthesis for treating MYC-driven medulloblastoma
Dong Wang, PhD, Principal Investigator
University of Colorado Denver
Young Investigator Grants, Awarded 2024
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Latest Brain Tumors blog posts

Accelerating Brain Tumor Cures with Data (Meet ALSF-funded researcher Jessica Tsai)
One of Jessica Tsai’s research projects produced hundreds (and hundreds) of gigabytes of data. If you printed this information out, you would need at least 10,000 cases of printer paper, which is pretty unimaginable, so Tsai likes to use... more
Curing Lethal Tumors: Meet Dr. Michelle Monje on International Women’s Day 
As a young trainee, many people gave Dr. Michelle Monje, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) grantee from Stanford University the (unsolicited) advice that one cannot have a big career in medicine or science and also have children.... more
Quarterly Childhood Cancer Research Update: Spring 2021
As the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) Director of Science, I work to evaluate our funded research projects to track progress and find gaps in funding so that we can direct more research dollars to the largest areas of need, and to... more
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Ashani was full of life, caring, compassionate and gentle. After her mother noticed a lump on her thigh, she was later diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma. Although she passed away at 8 years old, Ashani taught everyone around her to always appreciate life.
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