2016 Summary Principal investigators: Dimitris Placantonakis and Jayeeta Basu, NYU School of Medicine Glioblastoma (GBM) is a deadly brain tumor affecting children and adults. The biology of GBM is not well understood and, as a consequence, treatments are limited and ineffective. GBM grows rapidly and invades normal brain tissue, but never metastasizes to other organs. …
Introduction: written by Jeanne Young, President, The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation-Maryland, Workshop Administrator On Monday, May 22, 2006 the Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF), Germantown, MD, and the Children’s National Medical Center’s (CNMC) Department of Neurology, Washington, DC, Co-Sponsored the Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma Workshop: “Towards Biologic Based Therapies”. This full day, Professional Workshop was conducted …
The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation is proud to announce year 2001 funding of a promising research study entitled, “Gene Expression Analysis of Medulloblastoma” submitted by Dr. Tobey MacDonald of Children’s National Medical Center. The initial results of this study have been published in the October issues of the leading scientific journals, Nature Genetics. In addition, …