Image of Samreen Shaikh working in her lab.

Samreen Shaikh receives the 2024 CERN and Robert Connor Dawes Scientific Fellowship Award with the National Brain Tumor Society

We are excited to announce the recipient of the 2024 CERN and Robert Connor Dawes Foundation Fellowship Dr. Samreen Shaikh, scientist at the Children’s Brain Centre in The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, as a component of the RCD Foundation Brain Cancer Vaccine Project.

This fellowship award is a part of an ongoing collaboration between the CERN Foundation, National Brain Tumor Society, and the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, and was created with the goal of advancing pediatric ependymoma scientific research through collaborative partnerships, internationally.

As part of her work, Dr. Samreen Shaikh will travel to Professor Eric Holland’s laboratory at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre in Seattle, Washington, in the United States, to learn how to create, maintain and use validated ependymoma animal models, which are critical to the project’s success. Together with tumour tissue samples, she will validate the vaccine and generate the necessary data to translate it into a phase one clinical trial.

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CERN COMMUNITY

6th Annual Childhood Brain Cancer Research Collaborative Golf Tournament in Buffalo, NY

Image Rich and Kara DeLotto stand with their family on the dock next to a lake in the summertime.

For Rich and Kara DeLotto, Alex Brooks, and the Childhood Brain Cancer Research Collaborative, their vision of creating a best-in-class golf tournament in honor of Rich and Kara’s daughter Eva and all those diagnosed with an ependymoma brain tumor has turned into an annual tradition of impact.

Over the past six years, their golf fundraiser has funded two major active translational research projects and a virtual Ependymoma Guide for newly diagnosed patients and their care partners.

Congratulations on another successful golf tournament bringing together members of the brain tumor community to raise funds and awareness to give patients diagnosed with pediatric brain tumors a better chance!

For anyone looking to start their own movement of impact, reach out to CommunityEvents@braintumor.org.

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Support the Ependymoma Fund for Research and Education

With your generous support, we will continue to expand our efforts to improve the care and outcome of people with ependymoma.

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The CERN Foundation and the National Brain Tumor Society have joined forces to help people with ependymoma and advance ependymoma research toward the development of new and better treatments through the creation of the Ependymoma Fund for Research and Education. Today, the CERN Foundation is officially a designated program of the National Brain Tumor Society. Donations to the Ependymoma Fund for Research and Education will be made on the NBTS website and used to support research efforts that will benefit both ependymoma patients and research through CERN. Emphasis will be placed on CERN’s historical model of supporting work that translates basic science into clinical practice. The Fund will also address overcoming barriers to clinical trial accrual and the development of new clinical studies for ependymoma patients. Additional funds will be used to support educational efforts through print, media, and awareness events. The new collaborative Ependymoma Fund will continue CERN’s practice and tradition of involving and collaborating with other scientists, medical providers, foundations and supporters of ependymoma research.

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