Brain Tumour Walk Donate
  • Resources
  • Facing a Brain Tumour
  • Care & Support
  • Get Involved
  • Stories & News
    • Stories
    • News
    • Beyond Brain Tumours Podcast
    • Press Releases
  • Research
  • Giving
  • Health Care Professionals
  • Advocacy
  • Your Impact
  • About Us
  • 40 Years of Hope
  • Careers
  • Feedback
  • Contact Us

Host an event in support of Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada - Do it Your Way

  • Advocacy
  • Health Care Professionals
  • Your Impact
  • About Us
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
Brain Tumour Walk Donate
  • Resources
    • Order Handbooks
    • Information Sheets
    • Educational Videos
    • Webinars
    • External Links
  • Facing a Brain Tumour
    • Living with a Brain Tumour
    • Signs & Symptoms
    • Young Adult
    • Brain Tumour Types
    • Facts About Brain Tumours
    • Myths About Brain Tumours
  • Care & Support
    • One-on-One Support
    • Support Groups
    • Pediatric & Family Support
    • Caregiver Corner
    • Closed Facebook Support Groups
    • Support Tools
    • Virtual Programs
  • Get Involved
    • Events
    • Volunteer Opportunities
      and Awards
    • Raising Awareness
    • Studies and Surveys
    • 2025 Brain Tumour Walk
    • Host a Community Event
  • Stories & News
    • Stories
    • News
    • Beyond Brain Tumours Podcast
    • Press Releases
  • Research
    • Current Funding Opportunities
    • Research Recipients
    • Award and Scholarship Recipients
    • Youth Education Awards
    • Student Research Competition
    • Trevor Harrison Scholarship
    • Sponsorships and Collaborations
    • Clinical Trials
    • Research News
    • Brain Tumour Registry of Canada
  • Giving

Stay Informed!

Sign up for one
of our newsletters.
Sign Up Today

Research Recipient Type: Research Grant

Research Recipient Type: Research Grant

  • Home
  • Research Recipient Type: Research Grant
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.

Read more
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.

Read more
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.

Read more
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.

Read more
Stefan Lang – 2023 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Stefan Lang – 2023 Research Grant Recipient

Being honored with the 2023 Brain Tumor Foundation of Canada Research Grant is a pivotal step for my nascent lab, propelling a high-risk, high-reward project. This grant not only provides essential funding but also validates the innovative potential of our work.

Read more
Vijay Ramaswamy – 2023 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

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.

Read more
Jakob Magolan – 2022 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Jakob Magolan – 2022 Research Grant Recipient

This generous award from the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada will support an innovative therapeutic development program underway in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. In partnership with Prof. Sheila Singh and her team, we working to develop a new class of cancer therapies that can intercept and prevent the metastasis of cancers to the brain from other primary sites.

Read more
Ekaterina Tchistiakova and Nicolas Ploquin – 2022 Research Grant Recipients Featured Image

Ekaterina Tchistiakova and Nicolas Ploquin – 2022 Research Grant Recipients

Radiosurgery is one of the common treatment options for patients with brain metastases. It has several benefits over other treatment options including reduced side effects, it’s non-invasive nature and improved quality of life especially when administered early.

Read more
Alan Underhill – 2022 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

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.

Read more
Chantel Cacciotti – 2021 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

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 […]

Read more
Daniel Schramek – 2021 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

Daniel Schramek – 2021 Research Grant Recipient

Generously funded by Lori Stauber Daniel Schramek – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute – Toronto, ON Project Title: “Elucidating the genes that trigger […]

Read more
Mary Jane Lim-Fat – 2021 Research Grant Recipient Featured Image

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, […]

Read more
  • 1
  • 2
  • »

Get Involved

There are so many ways you can help make a difference in the lives of patients and families today.

Explore Opportunities

Have a question?

Reach out for support, education and information and to learn about research.

Contact Us

Contact Us

Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

205 Horton St E, Suite 203, London, ON N6B 1K7

Office Hours: The office is open Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm (EST).

Toll Free: 1-800-265-5106

Locally: 519-642-7755

Charitable Registration #:

BN118816339RR0001

  • Resources
  • Facing a Brain Tumour
  • Care & Support
  • Get Involved
  • Stories & News
  • Research
  • Giving
  • Health Care Professionals
  • Advocacy
  • Your Impact
  • About Us
  • 40 Years of Hope
  • Careers
  • Feedback
  • Contact Us

Connect With Us

Stay Informed. Sign up for our newsletter.

Sign Up Today
  • Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Facebook
  • Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Twitter
  • Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Instagram
  • Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Youtube
  • Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada Linkedin
Privacy Policy Disclaimer Accessibility © 2025 Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

This site uses cookies to improve user experience. Please select allow if you would like to allow the use of cookies.

Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

3rd Party Cookies

This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.

Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.

Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!

Additional Cookies

This website uses the following additional cookies:

(List the cookies that you are using on the website here.)

Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!