Research
And Grants
To further our mission, we annually award research grants to institutions and medical professionals whose research focuses on cancers that present the greatest opportunities for a homerun cancer cure.
Note: When clicking the "Submit Grant Application" button below you will be redirected to SnapGrant.com to complete the application process.
The Cure Starts Now has funded $21,325,827 in pediatric brain cancer research in partnership with the DIPG / DMG Collaborative. This includes 135 grants at over 100 hospitals in 17 countries.

CONNECT Consortium - $899,518.80
$899,518.00
September 2017
CONNECT (COllaborative Network for NEurooncology Clinical Trials) Consortium

University of Massachusetts Medical School - $50,000
$50,000.00
May 2017
Advanced RNAi therapeutics for DIPG

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford - $50,000
$50,000.00
May 2017
Cellular Cybercriminals: DIPG Hacks into the Neural Communication Infrastructure

Hospital for Sick Children - $50,000
$50,000.00
September 2016
MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound: Targeted Drug Delivery in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

Gustave Roussy Cancer Center - $93,071
$93,071.00
September 2016
Ultrasound-induced delivery of Panobinostat in preclinical models

The Hospital for Sick Children - $194,260
$194,260.00
September 2016
Exploring the interactome of H3K27M to find therapeutic targets for DIPG

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - $100,000
$100,000.00
September 2016
Allele-specific antisense therapy for DIPG

Children's Cancer Institute - $143,884
$143,884.00
September 2016
Radiosensitisation of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas by modulating the glucose metabolism

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - $100,000
$100,000.00
December 2015
Characterizing resistance mechanisms to radiation therapy and adjuvant chemotherapy in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center - $100,000
$100,000.00
December 2015
An early Phase 2 Study of LEE011, a CDK4/6 Inhibitor, following radiation therapy in Children with Newly Diagnosed non-biopsied Diffuse Pontine Gliomas (DIPG) and Rb+ biopsied DIPG and High Grade Gliomas (HGG)

Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital - $200,000
$200,000.00
December 2015
Targeting DIPGs through Super-activation of Steroid Receptor Co-activators: An in vivo Study in Patient-derived Intra-brain Stem Xenograft Mouse Models

Children's National Health System and Children's Research Institute - $125,000
$125,000.00
December 2015
Comprehensive Molecular-Based Cross-Species Comparison of DIPG Biology

Boston Children's Hospital - $110,000
$110,000.00
December 2015
Enabling epigenetic therapies by exploring DIPG chromatin sensitivities

UCL Institute of Child Health - $200,000
$200,000.00
December 2015
T-cell based immunotherapy for DIPG.

Dana Farber Cancer Institute - $100,000
$100,000.00
December 2015
Discovering novel epigenetic dependencies in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma