Exciting Research News!!!
In collaboration with Solving Kids' Cancer, a NYC-based organization, The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation is pleased to announce that we have co-funded some amazing and extremely promising research into treatment options for High Grade Gliomas (HGG).
As you may have seen in March, 2015 on "60 Minutes", Dr. Matthias Gromeier and his team at Duke University are studying the effect of using a genetically-modified polio virus that is injected into the brain tumor. (Click here for a story from 2015.) They have experienced very positive results in their adult patients. Heretofore, though, there has not been similar testing on children...until now.
Beginning this summer, we expect to see the first pediatric patient enrolled in the clinical trial. HGGs are extremely hard to treat and we hope and pray that this becomes a promising option for many children battling gliomas and give them and their family HOPE!
The grant from The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation was made in honor of the University of Delaware students who organize "UDance" and B+ Hero, Stephanie Bader, who passed away May 1, 2015 following a battle with glioblastoma. Steph was 13 years old. UDance students made this grant possible and this is yet another part of Steph's legacy! (Steph is pictured below at UDance '15 with her sister, Kate, a UDance Exec Board Member.)
To a brighter future...
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Ali & Andrew's Dad