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

Targeting of a putative unresolved wound healing process in childhood ependymoma
Nicholas Foreman, MD, Principal Investigator
University of Colorado Denver
Innovation Grants, Awarded 2024
Illuminating Choroid Plexus Carcinoma Vascularization in Real Time
Maria Lehtinen, PhD, Principal Investigator
Boston Children’s Hospital
Innovation Grants, Awarded 2024
DMG: From SWI/SNF’s role in cholesterol biosynthesis to new therapeutic opportunities
Capucine Van Rechem, PhD, Principal Investigator
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Innovation 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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Arianna Hines

Arianna is a firecracker. She is loving, empathetic, and bold. At a mere 13 months old, Arianna was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and began intensive treatment with some life-threatening complications. Today she is NED and her family raises money for ALSF.
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