Brain Tumor Funders' Collaborative
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The Brain Tumor Funders’ Collaborative (BTFC) is a partnership of nine private organizations designed to bridge the gap that can sometimes prevent laboratory science from yielding new medical treatments.
Each participating member of BTFC also maintains its own grant-making program and, in some cases, patient information and advocacy programs. These are accessible through their individual websites.
On March 14, 2006, the Brain Tumor Funders’ Collaborative announced results of their first joint funding initiative: up to three $2 million multi-year grants, awarded to multi-institutional teams of researchers and clinicians dedicated to finding new treatments for brain cancer patients.
History
Formed over a period of two years, a group of private funders supporting brain cancer research attended a series of workshops with researchers and clinicians, and asked each other to identify new forms of research, and structures within the research community that were needed to produce effective therapies for brain tumors. The result was the outline of a new funding initiative, to attempt to provide new approaches to cancer research. Collaboration among investigators, cooperation between basic science and clinical application, and merging of disciplines and institutions that operate independently, are the foundation of the approach.Each participating member of BTFC also maintains its own grant-making program and, in some cases, patient information and advocacy programs. These are accessible through their individual websites.
On March 14, 2006, the Brain Tumor Funders’ Collaborative announced results of their first joint funding initiative: up to three $2 million multi-year grants, awarded to multi-institutional teams of researchers and clinicians dedicated to finding new treatments for brain cancer patients.
Membership
The eight members of the Brain Tumor Funders' Collaborative are:- American Brain Tumor AssociationAmerican Brain Tumor AssociationThe American Brain Tumor Association , founded in 1973, was the first national, non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to brain tumor research and patient-family education and support...
- Brain Tumour Foundation of CanadaBrain Tumour Foundation of CanadaThe Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada is a Canadian charitable organization founded in 1982 which offers support, education and information to people in Canada affected by a brain tumour and their families, and which raises funds for brain tumour research. It is based in London, Ontario...
- Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation
- Goldhirsh Foundation
- Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation
- James S. McDonnell FoundationJames S. McDonnell FoundationThe James S. McDonnell Foundation was founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell. It was established to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge through its support of research and scholarship. Originally called the McDonnell...
- National Brain Tumor SocietyNational Brain Tumor SocietyThe National Brain Tumor Society is a non-profit organization with offices in Watertown, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California. It was formed in 2008 by the merger of the National Brain Tumor Foundation and the Brain Tumor Society...
- Sontag Foundation