Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation
/OVERVIEW: This funder supports research on brain tumors and cancers that affect children.
IP TAKE: CBTF’s recent grantmaking has focused on glioma and medulloblastoma tumors, but grantmaking is not strictly limited to these areas. Recipients tend to be M.D.- or Ph.D.-level researchers at leading universities, medical schools or institutes. Funding is limited to the U.S. and applications are accepted from January until mid-March each year. CBTF offers some neuroscience grants for travel and scholarships, as well. Don’t hesitate to contact this accessible and transparent funder.
PROFILE: Based in Germantown, Maryland, the Childhood Brian Tumor Foundation is a volunteer-led organization founded by physicians, families, and friends of children who suffer from brain tumors. It was first incorporated in Virginia in 1994, but dissolved and reincorporated in Maryland in 1998. The foundation’s main goal is to raise awareness of childhood brain tumors, but its research grants focus on diagnosis, treatments and cures for a broad range of brain tumors and cancers that affect children.
Neuroscience Grants
CBTF does not name specific goals for its Research Grants, but a significant portion of recent funding has gone to studies of glioma and medulloblastoma tumors.
Grants are generally awarded to M.D. and Ph.D.-level researchers at leading institutes including the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
For detailed information about past grantmaking, see the foundation’s grant funding page.
CBTF also makes related grants for neuroscience research in a variety of related areas:
Special Projects range from $2,000, $3500, to $25,000, $50,000.
One-year grants range from $35, 000 to $50,000, once or twice $60,000.
Conference sponsorships ISPNO in past years, range $10,000 to $15,000
Family Retreat Day Events held by CBTF have been offered as a special service for families $5500-10,000 each, nearly every year, NO cost to families
Brittany Truitt Scholarships which are for $6,000,($1000-$1500 each).
Some support has been given to local families in the area where CBTF is located.
Important Grant Details:
CBTF makes about $150,000 in grants each year. Its grants are generally awarded in the amount of $30,000 per year for a maximum of two years. Grantmaking is generally limited to research conducted at U.S.-based universities, hospitals and institutes.
This funder generally opens is application portal from January until mid-March each year. The foundation accepts applications from anywhere in the U.S. and indicates that “proposed studies must have the approval of the proposing institution’s Institutional Review Board (if appropriate) at the time of funding.” Inquiries may be submitted to the foundation via its contact page.
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