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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Latest Brain Tumors grants

Widening the therapeutic index for pediatric medulloblastoma by targeting BET proteins
Kristopher Sarosiek, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Harvard University
R Accelerated Award Grants, Awarded 2024
IGFBPL1 Peptide-Centric Chimeric Antigen Receptor Autologous T Cells for Relapsed HLA-A*02 Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma
John Maris, MD, Principal Investigator
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Reach Grants, Awarded 2024
Gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy in pediatric patients with recurrent malignant brain tumors
Andrea Franson, MD, Principal Investigator
University of Michigan
'A' Award Grants, Awarded 2024
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Brain Tumors Heroes

Huxley Rogers
Chris Ramirez
Joseph Bunkley
Willow Raczniak
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Grayson Moser
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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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Seth Walsh

Seth is spunky and can be friends with anyone. After being diagnosed with ALL, Seth endured countless trips out-of-state, four relapses, two CAR T-cell therapies, two bone marrow transplants, and one clinical trial. Today, Seth has reached remission!
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