Pediatric Archives

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.

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.

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.

Arthurine Yu – 2024 Studentship Recipient

Being awarded a Brain Tumour Research Studentship means potential, opportunity, and impact. Receiving this award from the BTFC is an incredible honour, and I am deeply grateful to the generous donors for funding this opportunity.

Vijay Ramaswamy – 2023 Research Grant Recipient

This award from the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada is a tremendous honour for myself and my laboratory, where it allows us to spearhead important translational work in very high-risk medulloblastoma that we hope can one day benefit patients and their families.

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.

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.

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Research Recipient Type: Pediatric

Research Recipient Type: Pediatric

Julie Bennett – 2024 Research Grant Recipient

Jerome Fortin – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

Meera Rayar – 2024 Feature Grant Recipient

Arthurine Yu – 2024 Studentship Recipient

Vijay Ramaswamy – 2023 Research Grant Recipient

David Hodgson – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

Hallie Coltin – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient

Sylvia Cheng – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Patrick Gunning – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient

Alan Underhill – 2022 Research Grant Recipient

Leandra Desjardins/Marco Bonanno – 2021 Pediatric Feature Grant Recipients

Cynthia Hawkins – 2021 Pediatric Feature Grant Recipient

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