The Center for Children’s Brain Tumors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford has received a $1 million gift from Listwin Family Foundation of Woodside, the hospital has announced.
The funds will be used by research scientists to try to find the molecular origins of medulloblastoma, the most common central nervous system tumor that occurs in children. Those tumors most often occur in children under the age of 10, who have a survival rate of 60 percent to 80 percent.
“We chose the Center for Children’s Brain Tumors because it combines Packard Hospital’s strong clinical experience with Stanford’s groundbreaking basic science research,” Don Listwin said. “Through this gift, we want to foster research that uses the newest biomedical technologies to identity and treat tumors in their earliest stages.”
“We don’t have a good understanding of brain tumors, especially the mechanisms by which they originate and grow,” said Matthew Scott, Stanford professor of developmental biology and one of the leaders of the Center for Children’s Brain Tumors research team.
More than 15 faculty members from a dozen Stanford departments will be part of the research effort.
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