2007, 2008, and 2009 AACR-National Brain Tumor Foundation Fellows

Through the fundraising efforts of Karen Brooks, in honor of the late Bonnie Brooks, National Brain Tumor Foundation and AACR awarded three (3) grants to outstanding young researchers beginning in 2006. Research projects are restricted to basic, translational, clinical, or epidemiology research with 100% applicability to brain tumor science.

2007-2008 Fellowship
Donghong Zhao, PhD
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
Duarte, California
The role of hypoxia in neural steam cell migration to glioma cells

2008-2009 Fellow
Milan G. Chheda, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Identification & characterization of novel genetic drivers of glioblastoma

2008-2010 Fellowship
Heiko Wurdak, PhD
The Schultz Lab, Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California
Identification of signals regulating brain tumor stem cell fate