A Palo Alto, Calif.-based foundation, the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, announced recently that it has awarded $9.8 million in grants to four different projects “working to improve clinical care for patients with brain tumors and design new strategies to boost the efficiency of treatment development.”
The four recipients were chosen from more than 100 proposals that were submitted, both from the US and abroad. The Ivy Foundation, according to its Web site, “funds patient-focused research on gliomas leading to the development of better diagnostics and treatment that offer long-term survival and a high quality of life for patients with brain tumors.” A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in either the brain or the spine.
The recipients awarded the grants are:
- Ronald A. DePinho and Lynda Chin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- John H. Sampson and Joseph R. Nevins, Duke University
- Sanjiv Gambhir and Andrei Iagaru, Stanford University
- Michael Prados, University of California, San Francisco
Rob Tufel, the foundation’s executive director, is quoted in the Philanthropy News Digest as saying, “As a foundation, we fund research that has the potential for ‘high reward’, (sic) as defined by impact on clinical care for patients with brain tumors.” Hopefully these projects will translate to that high reward Tufel mentioned.
You can find out more about each recipients’ particular research project here.
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