Julie Bennett – 2024 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Julie Bennett – 2024 Research Grant Recipient

Gliomas are the most common type of brain tumour in children, adolescents and young adults. An IDH mutation is a genetic change that can lead to glioma formation. IDH-mutant glioma is typically found in young adults, with these tumours universally progressing over time.

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Candice Poon – 2024 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Candice Poon – 2024 Research Grant Recipient

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating brain tumour with limited treatment options. This project explores the role of the glymphatic system, the brain's waste removal and immune cell transport network, in GBM progression.

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Angela Sekely – 2024 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Angela Sekely – 2024 Research Grant Recipient

Although primary brain tumours vary widely in prognosis, people living with any brain tumour are at increased risk of cognitive deficits. These cognitive deficits can affect their ability to manage daily tasks, maintain social relationships, and continue to work or remain in school.

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Garnette Sutherland – 2024 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Garnette Sutherland – 2024 Research Grant Recipient

Meningioma is the most common primary brain tumour in adults. Although a large percentage are classified as benign, the more aggressive types of meningioma impose a significant morbidity and mortality burden on patients.

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Jerome Fortin – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

Jerome Fortin – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

The current treatments for brain cancer do not work well and cause a lot of side-effects. This highlights the need to develop better treatments. There are several types of brain tumors. They differ in their age of onset, aggressiveness, and localization within the brain.

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Meera Rayar – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

Meera Rayar – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

Attending school not only allows students to learn but the opportunity to develop interests, connect with peers, and form lifelong bonds. With your generous support we will explore pediatric brain tumour survivors' and their families' experience re-entering the education system after a cancer diagnosis.

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Jonathan Stokes – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

Jonathan Stokes – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

Through their remarkable generosity, the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada has enabled our interdisciplinary research group to develop artificial intelligence technologies to help discover new therapies against recurrent glioblastoma.

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Peter Siegel – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

Peter Siegel – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

We hope this research will lead to the initiation of new clinical trials to optimize and expand the subset of patients with brain metastases who will derive the greatest clinical benefit from this therapy.

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David Fortin – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

David Fortin – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

This research project, which has been 10 years in the making, is progressing very well, and will continue to do so thanks to this generous grant. Rest assured that we will continue to work tirelessly to improve the care of brain tumour patients.

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Robert Vanner – 2024 Elevation Grant Recipient Featured Image

Robert Vanner – 2024 Elevation Grant Recipient

I am thrilled and grateful to receive The Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Mackenzie Rigg Brain Tumour Research Grant. These funds will launch an ambitious project in a completely new area of glioblastoma research, studying how age-related changes in the blood system fuel tumour growth.

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Adrienne Weeks – 2024 Elevation Grant Recipient Featured Image

Adrienne Weeks – 2024 Elevation Grant Recipient

In reading Allison's story, we see reflected many of our own patients and our own experiences as parents, daughters, partners, surgeons and researchers. This is a horrible cancer that robs families of time and memories.

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Scott Bratman – 2024 Elevation Grant Recipient Featured Image

Scott Bratman – 2024 Elevation Grant Recipient

I am grateful to the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada and DUNN with Cancer for funding our Elevation Research Grant. This award provides vital resources to help our team advance research on novel biomarkers for high-grade gliomas.

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