Pediatric - Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

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.

Alan Underhill – 2022 Research Grant Recipient

The funds received from the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada will allow us to build on exciting preliminary results and are critical to sustaining longer term studies aimed at evaluating clinical utility in childhood brain cancers.

Leandra Desjardins/Marco Bonanno – 2021 Pediatric Feature Grant Recipients

Leandra Desjardins / Marco Bonanno – Sainte-Justine Children’s Hospital Project Title: “Targeted transition readiness workshops for pediatric brain tumour survivors: […]

Cynthia Hawkins – 2021 Pediatric Feature Grant Recipient

Cynthia Hawkins – Hospital for Sick Children Project Title: “Investigating treatment targets in the DIPG immune landscape using single cell technology” […]

Chantel Cacciotti – 2021 Research Grant Recipient

Funded through the generosity of donors Chantel Cacciotti – London Health Sciences Centre- Children’s Hospital – London, ON Project Title: “Pediatric […]

Mary Jane Lim-Fat – 2021 Research Grant Recipient

Funded through the generosity of donors Mary Jane Lim-Fat – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre – Toronto, ON Project Title: “Assessing molecular, […]

Adrian Levine – 2021 Richard Motyka Research Fellowship Recipient

Adrian Levine Resident Physician, Neuropathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital Project Entitled: “Improving Precision Medicine for Pediatriac Glioma” […]

Yujin Suk – 2021 Studentship Recipient

Yujin Suk Medical Student, McMaster University Supervisor: Dr. Sheila Singh Project: “Identification of ITGA5 as a novel immunotherapeutic target against […]

Leonaes Brahel Tatchinda Kuete – 2021 Studentship Recipient

Leonaes Brahel Tatchinda Kuete Undergraduate Science Student, McGill University Supervisor: Dr. Leandra Desjardins Project: “Understanding Social Behaviors in Pediatric Brain […]

Mehul Gupta – Studentship – 2019

Mehul Gupta is an Undergraduate Science Student at the University of Calgary. Project title: “The Perfect Shot: Generation of Personalized Vaccines for Refractory Childhood Brain Tumours”