Feature Grant - Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

David Hodgson – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

The BTFC funding will allow us to start applying the most innovative machine learning methods to ensure patients with brain tumours in Ontario – including children – receive the highest quality radiotherapy possible.

Hallie Coltin – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

I would like to thank the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada for supporting this important work. Our project represents a novel collaboration between experts in translational medicine, clinical epidemiology, and neuro-oncology survivorship.

David Shultz – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

This award will allow our research team to better understand how brain metastases affect our patients’ ability to live meaningful and productive lives. We have the opportunity to study in great detail the unique challenges faced our patients and the factors that most strongly contribute to their psychological and functional well-being.

Federico Gaiti – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

Thanks to the generous funding provided by the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada and DUNN with Cancer, we are now poised to advance our research and delve deeper into elucidating key epigenetic factors that drive the progression of GBM and its resistance to therapies.

Sheila Singh – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

We are so grateful to the BTFC and DUNN with Cancer for the many levels of support they provide to the brain cancer research community. BTFC supports new ideas, innovation and transformative thinking about incredibly challenging problems like how to develop new treatments for a highly treatment-resistant brain tumour such as GBM.

Silvia Penuela – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

This funding has enabled us to continue the promising research on targeting pannexin channels to stop communication between cells and reduce the growth and spread of glioblastoma tumours. Thanks to this funding we can support the technicians, graduate students, and expensive supplies we need to use in the lab to carry out this research.

Sylvia Cheng – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

On behalf of my collaborating investigators and myself, I would like to express immense gratitude to all of you for supporting our research that we know will have profound impact on the practice and delivery of care for pediatric brain tumour patients across Canada.

Patrick Gunning – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Cancer treatment has undergone many advancements in the past decade to improve patient quality of life and to provide new and improved treatment strategies. However, there is still a lot of work to be done, with current treatment strategies succumbing to resistance, and other more rare cancers remaining undruggable.

Melanie Keats – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Glioblastoma (a fast-growing brain cancer) is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults. As a devastating diagnosis with a high mortality rate and rapid loss of function and independence, it is imperative to consider factors such as symptom management, maintaining independence and preserving or improving quality of life for the duration of the patients’ life.

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Research Recipient Type: Feature Grant

Research Recipient Type: Feature Grant

David Hodgson – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

Hallie Coltin – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

David Shultz – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

Federico Gaiti – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

Sheila Singh – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

Silvia Penuela – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Sylvia Cheng – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Patrick Gunning – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Melanie Keats – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Leandra Desjardins/Marco Bonanno – 2021 Pediatric Feature Grant Recipients

Cynthia Hawkins – 2021 Pediatric Feature Grant Recipient

Sheila Singh – 2020 Feature Grant Recipient

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