Research
Empowering Brain Cancer Research Through Tissue Donation
Pediatric brain cancer research is not proceeding as fast as it could and survival rates have flatlined because tissue for research is scarce.
The Power of Tissue Donation
Autopsy Tissue
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Empowered Research
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Medical Advances
The precious gift of your child’s autopsy tissue will empower research so breakthroughs can be made and a cure can be found for this devastating disease. Here you will find a listing of some pediatric cancer publications that 1) explain the need for autopsy tissue and 2) highlight some of the research breakthroughs that have been made possible because of autopsy tissue.
Recent Publications from Centers of Excellence
Dr. Monje-Deisseroth and her team at Stanford University recently published a paper detailing how gliomas are able to “hijack” the brain’s communication system.
Published in Nature: High-grade gliomas are lethal brain cancers whose progression is robustly regulated by neuronal activity. Activity-regulated release of growth factors promotes glioma growth, but this alone is insufficient to explain the effect that neuronal activity exerts on glioma progression. Here we show that neuron and glioma interactions include electrochemical communication through bona fide AMPA receptor-dependent neuron–glioma synapses. Read More
Why Autopsy Tissue is Needed to Empower Research
Research Breakthroughs Resulting from Autopsy Tissue
Potent antitumor efficacy of anti-GD2 CAR T cells in H3-K27M+ diffuse midline gliomas_2018
Non-inflammatory tumor microenvironment of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma_2018
Intertumoral Heterogeneity within Medulloblastoma Subgroups_Sick Kids Publication_June 2017
A Protocol for Rapid Post-mortem Cell Culture of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)_March 2017
Neural Precursor-Derived Pleiotrophin Mediates Subventricular Zone Invasion by Glioma_Aug 2017
Divergent clonal selection dominates medulloblastoma at recurrence
Models Pave the Way for Improved Outcomes in Medulloblastoma_August 2016
Functionally defined therapeutic targets in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma_June 2015
Neuronal Activity Promotes Glioma Growth through Neuroligin-3 Secretion_May 2015 Cell
Stanford Research Paper: Electrical and synaptic integration of glioma into neural circuits
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Contact us at info@swiftyfoundation.org or call 844-456-GIFT
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