Over the last decade, there has been an explosion in the amount of data generated from the DNA and RNA sequencing studies. Essentially, these data inform us about the blueprints of the cancer cell – the instructions it uses to carry out its primary function of cellular proliferation. However, translating these findings into new therapies …
NEW RESEARCH STUDY A protocol is open at the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, for children, ages 8 to 18 years, who have had a brain tumor that was treated with radiation at least 1 year ago. This study is evaluating whether a novel home physical activity program …
The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation is pleased to be a Silver sponsor for the 19th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. Meeting to be held, June 21 to June 24, 2020 in Karuizawa, Nagono, Japan. As always the ISPNO brings together clinicians, researchers, allied health professionals, and experts.
Dr. Eugene Hwang is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Children’s National Medical Center, where he is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Neuro-oncology Immunotherapeutics Program. After attending medical school at Duke University School of Medicine, he completed his pediatrics residency at Brown University and then hematology-oncology and neuro-oncology fellowships back at Duke University. …
Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology and Instructor of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Pediatric Neuro-oncology Service, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer CenterJohns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Reston Youth League’s Be AMYazing triathlon event for kids continues to be an outstanding success and has been held every year on Mother’s Day since 2008 in memory of Amy Boyle, who fought valiantly against diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). For years, the Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation has funded research supported by the Be …
Dr. Anna Marie Kenney, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation generously provided support to my lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering to conduct basic studies of cell biological events that may contribute to medulloblastoma occurrence and growth. Our studies were called “mRNA translation machinery in medulloblastoma”. We used a combination of …
Katherine E. Warren, MD, Clinical Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, MA Member of Faculty, Harvard Medical School Dr. Warren is an internationally recognized expert in pediatric Neuro-Oncology. She is a newly appointed Clinical Director of the Stop & Shop Family Pediatric Brain Tumor Program in the Department of Pediatric Oncology …
