Dec 2023 – DECRYPT announce that its inaugural grant of $600,000 is being awarded to Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) neuro-oncologist and ATRT expert Dr. Annie Huang for a four-year research project.

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May 2022 – The human brain is critical to a child’s development. Within a few years of life, the brain enables us to sit, walk, talk and eventually make independent decisions. But that journey can be complicated by trauma, disease or disorders like epilepsy.

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April 2021 – “A modified herpes virus, alone and in combination with radiation, has been shown to be well tolerated with early signs of clinical effectiveness in pediatric patients with high-grade brain tumors, or gliomas, according to findings from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama.”

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March 2021 – Diffusion weighted imaging and machine learning can successfully classify the diagnosis and characteristics of common types of pediatric brain tumours.

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March 2021 – A new drug combination has shown ‘spectacularly effective’ results against DIPG in animal and 3D model testing.

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February 2021 – Researchers in Australia are reporting promising new findings to treat Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG).

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February 2021 – New drug targets for childhood cancer neuroblastoma identified
The discovery of a single cell behind childhood neuroblastoma has created new drug treatment opportunities.

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January 2021 – “The work of a Montreal researcher could lead to identifying which children have a genetic predisposition to cancer, allowing them to be closely monitored and, hopefully, lead to an early diagnosis of the disease.”

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November 2020 – A new study from the University of South Australia explores the efficacy of proton therapy in children with brain tumours.

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July 2020 – “After discovering how a specific gene fuels a deadly form of children’s brain tumour, University of Manitoba researchers have successfully decreased this cancer in mice.”

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May 2020 – A team of researchers have developed a novel methodology to predict, faster, whether or not a metastatic brain tumour would respond to radiotherapy.

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April 2020 – Brain cancer in infants is biologically distinct from other childhood brain tumours and could be successfully treated with targeted drugs, a new study has shown.

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April 2020 – A European study into the molecular properties of medulloblastoma could lead to more effective treatments in children with certain genetic predispositions.

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April 2020 – By analysing all protein-coding genes, researchers identify and replicate rare germline loss-of-function variants across ELP1 in 14% of paediatric patients with the medulloblastoma subgroup Sonic Hedgehog.

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