The Musella Foundation announced that it has awarded a $25,000 brain tumor research grant to Dr. Robert Prins of UCLA. In keeping with our efforts to collaborate with other organizations to speed up brain tumor research, we partnered with Voices Against Brain Cancer to fund this $50,000 grant request. Each organization paid ½ of the total amount. This is a very special project, which I think has the potential to make a big impact. It will combine a checkpoint inhibitor with a custom made vaccine. The vaccine by itself has had remarkable success in a few patients - with some GBM patients alive and doing well after 6 years, but it didn't help other patients. This project will try to figure out how to make the vaccine help more - or all - of the patients.
