CLICK PLAY ABOVE to watch our announcement video. Two leading foundations in the field of pediatric brain cancer research funding, Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation, are uniting as one organization, ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation, to elevate and amplify their impact on finding a cure for DIPG. In September 2014, two families, […]
Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation, with their chapters and partner families, are funding two new Fellowships through their grant program, with a total new commitment of $300,000 over two years. The Defeat DIPG ChadTough Fellowships are designed to encourage outstanding scientists to choose a career involving DIPG research, by funding outstanding postdoctoral fellows under […]
Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation, with its chapters and partner families, has made a grant of $100,000 to support the opening of a new Expanded Access Program for ONC201, an experimental drug currently being tested to treat DIPG. From 2018 to 2020, Defeat DIPG has provided $266,666 to support development of ONC201, with a goal […]
Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation, with their chapters and partner families, have granted over $600,000 for the Diffuse Midline Glioma – Adaptive Clinical Trial (DMG-ACT), a new collaboration through the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC) and the DIPG Centre of Expertise in Zurich. This innovative project will support preclinical and clinical […]
Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG®Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is finding a cure for the deadliest pediatric brain cancer, DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma), announced today the addition of a chapter in Gresham, Oregon, to its Defeat DIPG®Network: Levi Harden Defeat DIPG®Foundation. Today would have been Levi Harden’s fourth birthday. Levi passed away from DIPG in October […]
Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Stanford University and one of the world’s top researchers in the study of high grade-gliomas. In 2017, Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation awarded a research grant to Dr. Monje for her project titled “The Tumor Microtube Network in DIPG: Targeting a Possible […]
Families, researchers, government regulators, and advocates gathered in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2020, for a multi-part event for the DIPG community, organized by the DIPG Advocacy Group. There was an excellent turnout from throughout the country, a powerful example of collaboration and persistence of families who will not stop pushing to do better for the […]
Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation are funding ten new Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)-specific research projects totaling more than $2.8 million over the next three years (2020-22). Two of the new grants will be made in partnership with SoSo Strong Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. To date, the Defeat DIPG ChadTough grant program has committed $6.1 million to 23 DIPG […]
Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation, and their chapters and partner families, are thrilled to announce the funding of 11 new DIPG-specific research projects totaling $3.4 million over the next 3 years. This brings the total research dollars committed through the Defeat DIPG ChadTough partnership to more than $6.7 million in the past 3 years. […]
Thanks to our amazing Defeat DIPG supporters, we raised over $230,000 (and counting) for DIPG research on #GivingTuesday. We started #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving on December 3, with a goal of raising at least $150,000 for DIPG research. In the afternoon, we were very grateful to get another $20,000 in matching dollars to increase our […]