Funding Sources
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to both past and present supporters of our research in the fight against childhood brain cancer. Your contributions are invaluable to our mission.
Read about Chad Carr’s struggle with DIPG that led to the establishment of the Chad Tough Foundation and the University of Michigan Chad Carr Pediatric Brain Tumor Center that puts Michigan at the leading edge of DIPG research
Sriram Venneti receives RO1 grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Sriram Venneti , Deepak Nagrath and Benita Tamrazi receive R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Sriram receives the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) R Accelerated Award to study epigenetic therapies in DIPG .
Sriram and Costas Lyssiotis receive the ALSF Innovation grant to study disrupted metabolism in DIPG. Co-funded by Flashes of Hope and McKenna Claire Foundation.
Sriram receives the ALSF Innovator award for supratentorial ependymoma research.
Sriram receives the ALSF Innovation grant, co-funded by Storm The Heavens Fund to conduct DIPG research.
Sriram receives a 2020 Hyundai Hope Scholar Grant
Dr. Chan Chung receives an award joint sponsored by the Chad Tough and the Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG foundations.
Dr. Chan Chung receives a fellowship award from the RCD foundation/CERN
Sriram is appointed Julie Reyes Taubman Emerging Scholar Cancer. Here is Julie’s courageous struggle with cancer
Sriram receives the Sontag Foundation 2017 Distinguished Scientist Award
National Cancer Institute K08 award
Sriram receives the Sidney Kimmel Scholar award (Article in University of Michigan Health News)
The lab receives funding for our work on pediatric glioblastomas from The Matthew Larson Foundation
Sriram is awarded the Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Awards
Sriram receives a Research Grant from the St Baldricks Foundation with generous support from the McKenna Claire Foundation established by the Wetzel family in memory of their daughter, McKenna.
