Dr. Zhiping Zhou and Dr. Mark Souweidane, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, were recently awarded a $10,000 grant from the Beez Foundation to aid in their laboratory's research in the fight again childhood cancers. The Beez Foundation, a nonprofit, charitable organization awarded the funds for the research Multi-drug Targeted Therapy in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma.
Diffuse intrinsic pointine glioma (DIPG) in childhood is a cancer with no cure. The only available treatment is palliative radiation therapy. Current chemotherapy has not been effective in treating this disease. Convention-enhanced delivery (CED) is a technique to deliver drugs directly into the tumor at high concentrations and avoid systemic toxicity, and the potential to use therapeutic agents that normally would never gain access to brain tissue. Dr. Souweidane's research team plans to use CED to deliver multiple magic bullets, targeting the tumor to treat DIPG. They expect these multi-drug therapies will be therapeutically beneficial in the animal model and will eventually improve the outcome of patients with DIPG.
From left to right: Dr. Glen Landesman, Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of The Beez Foundation, Brian Thompson, Special Reporter for NBC, Susan Giardina, CoFounder of The Beez Foundation and mother of Jennifer, in whose memory the foundation was created, Dr. Zhiping Zhou and Dr. Mark Souweidane
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