Huadong Pei, Ph.D., The George Washington University New Funding Summary, first of two years Medulloblastoma is the most common and aggressive type of brain tumor in children. It originates in the back part of the brain called the cerebellum. In up to 1/3 of cases, it can spread to other parts of the brain and …
Philip Beachy, Ph.D. and Michelle Monje, M.D. 2010-2011 funding Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a devastating childhood brain tumor that is poorly understood and universally fatal. Progress to date has been limited by a lack of faithful experimental model systems. We have overcome this impasse by generating new DIPG cell lines and xenograft model …
Michael Cooper Funded 2008 Pilocytic astrocytoma is commonly viewed as a benign lesion with an excellent 10-year survival rate. However, disease onset is most prevalent in the first two decades of life, current therapeutic modalities are often limited by tumor location and size and late recurrences are not uncommon. Thus, as many children are left …