Funded by the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund
Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer related deaths and long term side effects in children. Treatments that are specifically directed to tumors, while sparing normal brain cells, are desperately required to increase the effectiveness of treatments and to reduce side effects. This project is focused on trying to find ways to inhibit specific mutations in a group of genes that are found across common childhood gliomas. Our hope is that our work will help us find ways to use medications that target these mutations specifically to allow precision medicine approaches.
