Ivy Foundation Funds New Brain Cancer Research Consortium : $3M Stage I Project Aims to Improve Personalized Medicine for...(for predicting treatment response based ...),Health

Date:7/8/2008

for predicting treatment response based on the genetic profile of a patient's tumor. Real-time collaborative linkage and project-specific communication are provided through the support of 5AM Solutions of Reston, Virginia. The successful completion of Stage I will form the basis for funding Stage II, a clinical trial for patients with recurrent GBM.

"The Ivy Foundation's fast and flexible approach to brain cancer research combined with the unique gathering of exceptional researchers from leading medical institutions across the United States is already generating several 'firsts' in brain cancer research," said Dr. Berens. "The Ivy G.B.M. Project was initiated at unprecedented speed; institutional agreements were signed in a remarkable four months and, because of the collaborative nature of the project, researchers will now be able to compare results across institutions on a diverse set of tumors and treatment regimen response patterns. The size, scope and potential impact this project will have for patients with brain cancer is simply huge."

Ivy G.B.M. Project Phase One project leaders and institutions include:

  Michael E. Berens, Ph.D.

Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Antonio Chiocca, M.D., Ph.D. and Sean Lawler, Ph.D.

Ohio State University

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Howard Colman, M.D., Ph.D.

• University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

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• Yancey Gillespie, Ph.D.

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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