The Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research & Information is now accepting applications for brain tumor research grants. We have set up our system to make it easier and faster for researchers to get the money they need. There is no deadline, no timetables, and minimal paperwork required. We will consider applications as soon as they are submitted. We will post the proposal on our website where our grants committee will evaluate it. (Do NOT include anything that is secret. It WILL be posted on the web!) If the project is found acceptable by our grants committee and we have the money available, we will quickly approve the request and send a check in days. We also encourage other brain tumor organizations and even individuals to look through these proposals for projects that they would like to fund. Other organizations can feel free to directly give grants to any projects they see here - or perhaps partner with us to fund a project that we both can't afford individually, and individuals can fund projects by making a donation and specifying which projects they want it to go to.

The application process consists of 2 parts: (To request the application, go to our feedback form and ask for the grant application!)

1. You submit a grant proposal of about 1 page describing what you want to do, why you think it might work on brain tumors, specific tumor types or age groups that may be involved, and how much money you need. Leave out the "fluff" such as statistics on how bad brain tumors are. We know.
2. IF your project is selected as a candidate for approval, we will give you a short list of questions to answer. We don't want to make you take time from research to fill out paperwork.

TO APPLY: All doctors in our database have a private control panel where they can edit thier contact information and list thier trials. The application is at the bottom of the control panel. If you aren't already in our database, go to: Virtualtrials.com and click on "ABOUT US" then "ADD A TRIAL" then register as a new user. Feel free to call us at 888-295-4740 if you have any problems or questions!

Our recent grant awards include:

• 2010
• $38,000 to Dr Jim Olsen, University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, for project: In vivo prioritization of FDA drugs for PNET brain tumors. Funded via the Grey Ribbon Crusade in conjunction with Unlocking Brain Tumors and Have A Chance, Inc
• $25,000 to Dr. F. Avraham Dilmanian at Brookhaven National Lab, NY, for the project: "Heavy Ion Microbeam Radiation Therapy of High Grade Gliomas". Funded via the Grey Ribbon Crusade in conjunction with Unlocking Brain Tumors and Have A Chance, Inc
• $50,000 to Dr Darell Bigner at Duke for the project: Novel Single Chain Trispecific Immunotoxin D2C7-Mel-14 for GBM Therapy. Funded via the Grey Ribbon Crusade in conjunction with Unlocking Brain Tumors and Have A Chance, Inc

• 2009
• $10,000 to the Brad Kaminsky Foundation - part of the Grey Ribbon Crusade - to help pay for the 2009 race for hope which will support brain tumor vaccine research!
• $40,000 to Dr Rahman at the University of Florida for project titled: "Morphogenetic Protein + Avastin in the Treatment of Glial Tumors". This was funded through the Grey Ribbon Crusade with the help of Unlocking Brain Tumors.
• $10,000 to Dr Rahman at the University of Florida for project titled:"Bone Morphogenetic Protein in the Treatment of Glial Tumors". This was funded through the Grey Ribbon Crusade with the help of our Oligo Fund, Just One More Day for Love, Hope & a Cure and Gunner's Magic Train Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Click HERE [ for the results presented as a poster at the Society For Neuor-oncology conference in New Orleas Oct 2009
• $20,000 contribution as part of a $70,000 Grey Ribbon Crusade grant to F. Avraham Dilmanian, Ph.D. at Brookhaven National Lab, NY for the project titled: "Treating Brain tumors with lnterlaced Carbon Microbeams"
• $40,000 to Dr Deneen at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine for project: "The role of glial fate determinants in the generation of astrocytomas". This was funded through the Grey Ribbon Crusade with the help of the Nick Gonzales Foundation!
• $49,938 to Dr Zagzag at NYU Medical Center for a project: Combined Anti-Angiogenic and Anti-Invasive Therapy for Gliomas. This grant was funded by our "Donald Klein Memorial Fund", individual donations as well as a generous donation from Unlocking Brain Tumors via the Grey Ribbon Crusade!
• $17,000 to Dr Barth at Ohio State for project: Preclinical Studies on Convection Enhanced Delivery of Carbolatin in Combination with Photon Irradiation for the Treatment of Gliomas. This was funded via a generous grant to us from the Have a Chance foundation, and represented the second half of a project started last year.
• $50,000 to Dr Barth at Ohio State for project: Preclinical Study on Convection Enhanced Delivery of Carbolatin in Combination with Photon Irradiation for the Treatment of high grade Gliomas. This was funded via the Grey Ribbon Crusade with help from the Nick Gonzales Foundation!
• $5,000 to Dr Gillman for analysis of the brain tumor virtual trial data.
• $50,000 to Dr Jose Valerio at the the Cleveland Clinic for project: Targeting metabolism in brain tumors

• 2008
• $5,000 to the Brad Kaminsky Foundation (as part of the Grey Ribbon Crusade) - for project: Preclinical Studies on Convection Enhanced Delivery of Carbolatin in Combination with Photon Irradiation for the Treatment of Gliomas
• $8,000 to the Brad Kaminsky Foundation (as part of the Grey Ribbon Crusade) - for project: Heroes of Hope Race for Research to raise money for immunotherapy program at UCLA
• $20,000 to the Brad Kaminsky Foundation (as part of the Grey Ribbon Crusade) - for project: Preclinical Studies on Convection Enhanced Delivery of Carbolatin in Combination with Photon Irradiation for the Treatment of Gliomas
• $10,000 to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY for project involving Ruta-6 in rats.
• $20,000 to Dr Muh at Emory for project titled:A novel pan PI3-kinase inhibitor (SF1126) in the treatment of medulloblastoma. This was the first grant given via the Heroes of Hope coalition, where brain tumor organizations work together to quickly fund projects. Our contribution for this project was $6,667. The Wittmer Foundation and Unlocking Brain Tumors, Inc each also contributed $6,667.
• $60,000 to Dr Hideho Okada at the University Of Pittsburgh for work on a new vaccine for low grade oligodendrogliomas. Click HERE for a video about his current vaccine for GBMs This grant was made possible through the Oligo Fund, and the Heroes Of Hope coalition (greyribboncrusade.org), specifically, with the help of Unlocking Brain Tumors, George Bein and the Oligo online support group!

• 2007
• $40,000 to Dr Hideho Okada at the University Of Pittsburgh for work on a new vaccine for low grade glioma. Click HERE for a video about his current vaccine for GBMs
• $25,000 grant to F. Avraham Dilmanian, Ph.D. at Brookhaven National Lab, NY for the project titled: "Stereotactic Microbeam Radiation Therapy of a rat brainstem gliosarcoma as a surrogate for optic glioma" - (This was the 4th payment for a project started Dec 2006)
• $25,000 grant to F. Avraham Dilmanian, Ph.D. at Brookhaven National Lab, NY for the project titled: "Stereotactic Microbeam Radiation Therapy of a rat brainstem gliosarcoma as a surrogate for optic glioma" - (This was the third payment for a project started Dec 2006). Click HERE to see an article about the project.
• $20,000 grant to F. Avraham Dilmanian, Ph.D. at Brookhaven National Lab, NY for the project titled: "Stereotactic Microbeam Radiation Therapy of a rat brainstem gliosarcoma as a surrogate for optic glioma" - (This was the second payment for a project started Dec 2006)

• 2006
• $15,000 grant to F. Avraham Dilmanian, Ph.D. at Brookhaven National Lab, NY for the project titled: "Stereotactic Microbeam Radiation Therapy of a rat brainstem gliosarcoma as a surrogate for optic glioma" - Note: this grant was a joint effort between the Musella Foundation and the Lauren's First and Goal Foundation
• $50,000 to Robert Prins. PhD, at UCLA Medical Center, for the project titled: “Genetic profiling and immunotherapeutic targeting of Optic Gliomas”
• $50,000 to Timothy E. Van Meter, PhD at Virginia Commonwealth University for a project entitled "A Molecular Signature of Pediatric Optic Glioma"

• 2005
• $80,000 grant to Dr Linda Liau at UCLA start a phase 1 trial of recombinant Listeria Monocytogenes (rLM) live bacterial vectors for targeting tumor-associated antigens expressed by malignant gliomas that are otherwise inoperable
• $150,000 milestone payment toward $500,000 grant to Cedar Sinai for "A Phase I Trial of Tumor Associated Antigen-Pulsed Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy for Patients with Brain Stem Glioma" - to start the trial on patients! Previous portion of grant was for creation of the vaccine therapy.
• $10,000 to Dr. Garret Yount at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute for project: "Brain Tumor Stem Cell Response to Novel Anti-Cancer Agents"
• $10,000 to Dr. Peter Burger and Dr. Charles Eberhart at the Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine, for Pilomyxoid / Pilocytic Research Study. Other organizations are working together with us to fund this $60,000 project!
• 2004
• $120,000 to Dr Linda Liau at UCLA for the Development of recombinant Listeria Monocytogenes (rLM) live bacterial vectors for targeting tumor-associated antigens expressed by malignant gliomas (including Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas) that are otherwise inoperable.*
• $500,000 was awarded to Dr Keith Black and Dr John Yu at Cedas Sinai for "A Phase I Trial of Tumor Associated Antigen-Pulsed Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy for Patients with Brain Stem Glioma" , which will pay for the first 2 years of a possible 4 year study. First payment of $100,000 was made.
• $50,000 to Dr Roberta Hayes at Cabrini Medica Center for "Generation of an Immunologic Vaccine against EGFR mutants for inoperable brain tumors: brainstem gliomas and gliomatosis"
• $50,000 to Dr. Kellie J. Nazemi and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for "Investigation into the Pathways that Regulate Growth of Infratentorial (brainstem) Brain Tumors"
• $30,000 to Dr. Erwin VanMeir at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University for "Investigation of the role of IL-8 expression in gliomagenesis"
• 2003
• $50,000 to Dr. Waldemar Debinski for pre-clinical work on Glioblast-13, a new IL-13-based cytotoxin for malignant glioma.
• $40,000 to Dr. Paul Zeltzer to research a book on brain tumors for patients
• $6,000 to Dr. Roberta Hayes to purchase a freezer used to store cell cultures for an immunotherapy research project (IL-2 + LAK Cells).