First annual Dragon Derby! From our good friends at the Dragon Masters Foundation - they will use the funds for brain tumor research! You can buy a dragon and watch the race live on Facebook. Should be fun!
Musella Foundation awards two more brain tumor research grants! Wanted to say a big thank you to Wizathon.com, as well as our many volunteers and participants in the National Walk To End Brain Tumors. Wizathon helped us turn our live 5k events into virtual events. They did not do as well as in years past, but did much better than I expected considering the circumstances!
Hopefully things will get back to normal next year!
Everolimus improves the efficacy of dasatinib in PDGFRa-driven glioma Look at your pathology report to see if you have the PDGFRα mutation... if so it might be worth considering this combination! It is early work but they did the research the right way - they came up with a theory, tested it in the lab and in animals, then tried it on a small group of people and it did pretty well. The Musella Foundation helped support this project through our collaboration with the DIPG Collaborative.
Valganciclovir as Add-on to Standard Therapy in Glioblastoma Patients Impressive gains for a relatively easy treatment. Valganciclovir (Valcyte) is approved for the treatment of cytomegalovirus so it is easily obtainable off label. Small study and needs to be confirmed but might be worth considering!
