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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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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Arthurine Yu – 2024 Studentship Recipient Featured Image

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.

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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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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.

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David Hodgson – 2023 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

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.

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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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Patrick Gunning – 2022 Feature Grant Recipient Featured Image

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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