Adam Bakos – 2025 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

Adam Bakos – 2025 Studentship Recipient

Being awarded a Brain Tumour Research Studentship means opportunity. I am deeply honoured to be holding this award, and for this, I extend my deepest gratitude to the Taite Boomer Memorial Brain Tumour Foundation, enabling young researchers like me to strengthen the progression of research through the joint passion and generosity of this community

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Lucas Asselstine – 2025 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

Lucas Asselstine – 2025 Studentship Recipient

I am sincerely grateful to Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada and to the St. George Royal Canadian Legion whose generosity makes this experience possible. Their support empowers students to explore their potential and contribute meaningfully to the lives of patients and families.

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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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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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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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Martin Profant – 2024 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

Martin Profant – 2024 Studentship Recipient

Being awarded a Brain Tumour Research Studentship means the chance to pursue potentially lifesaving research. I have been searching for an area of study in which to pursue my own intellectual curiosity and also the potential to positively impact patient outcomes.

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Federico Gaiti – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

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.

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Sheila Singh – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

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.

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Lennart van Winden – 2023 Fellowship Recipient Featured Image

Lennart van Winden – 2023 Fellowship Recipient

Receiving the prestigious DUNN with Cancer Brain Tumour Research Fellowship is an exceptional honor and a pivotal moment in my academic and professional journey. This fellowship provides a remarkable opportunity to delve into the complexities of glioblastoma (GBM), a highly challenging and invasive form of brain cancer.

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