Featured Stories
Scientific and Clinical PLGA Progress: Indebted to the Founding PLGA Scientific Advisors
Changing the outcome for PLGA patients through cutting-edge scientific and clinical research has finally become a reality. Thanks, in large part,…
From the Perspective of a Pediatric Brain Tumor Patient
16 year old Sammi of Team Samantha has turned her brain tumor diagnosis at the age of 3 into an opportunity to help others. She recently spoke at…
AKBTC Funding Helps Support 3 Recent PLGA Research Projects
Thanks to the ongoing support of our community, A Kids’ Brain Tumor Cure has been able to help fund a variety of PLGG research projects including…
Why I PMC: Year Up “Concrete Evidence of Change”
AKBTC Board Member Daniel Itzkovitz, his son, Dmitri, a pediatric brain tumor survivor, and supporters discuss the crucial need for fundraising for…
Today Show Mentions A Kids’ Brain Tumor Cure
The Today show mentioned AKBTC in a piece that they ran June 21, 2017 on kids helping raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer. The article…
AKBTC Board President & Daughter Speak at Pan Mass Challenge Heavy Hitters Dinner
AJ Janower, Board President of A Kids’ Brain Tumor Cure Foundation, and his daughter, brain tumor survivor Samantha Janower, were recently asked to…
Research
- May 2018: Critical Mechanisms of Gene Regulation in Medulloblastoma
- March 2017: SickKids of Toronto, Dr. Uri Tabori: – Novel universal classification of childhood low grade gliomas using clinico-pathological and molecular methods.
- June 2016: DNA Analysis of Paediatric Low-Grade Astrocytomas Identifies Tumour-Specific Signature in Pilocytic Astrycotomas
- June 2016: Johns Hopkins Medical Center – Dr. Eric Raabe, Dr. Charles Eberhart, Dr. Fausto Rodriguez: Using Human Neural Stem Cells to Create Genetically Accurate Models of PLGG, Developing PLGG Models Using Patient-Derived Tumor Tissue, Dual mTOR/NOTCH inhibition as a Therapeutic Strategy for PLGG
- November 2015: Long Term Clinical Implications of PLGG Molecular Subgroups
- September 2015: Genomic Analysis of Matched Primary and Progressive Recurrent PLGAs
