Northwestern Mutual Foundation

The mission of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation is to improve the lives of children and families in need. The Foundation has given more than $35 million since its inception in 1992 and is designed to create lasting impact in the communities where the company's employees and financial representatives live and work. We accomplish this by combining financial support, volunteerism, thought leadership and convening community partners to deliver the best outcomes. Our efforts are focused nationally on curing childhood cancer, and locally on education, neighborhoods and making our hometown of Milwaukee a great destination.

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Co-Funded Projects

Project Title	Institutions	Co-Funder(s)
Elucidating Essential Kinase-Independent Functions of ALK	Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Novel Synergistic Drug Combinations for Lineage-plastic Pediatric Leukemias	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Social Determinants of Health Associated with Clinical Trial Enrollment in a Diverse Cohort of Children and Adolescents with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia	University of California, San Diego	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Lipid nanoparticle delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 reagents for disruption of oncogenic translocations in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma	University of California, Los Angeles	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
CNS status and MRD at end of induction stratified by race and ethnicity	Emory University	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Treatment of drug-resistant medulloblastoma with RNA translation inhibitors	University of Michigan	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Deciphering the tumor microenvironment in metastatic osteosarcoma for therapeutic benefit	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Maximization of oncolytic virotherapy for pediatric brain tumor through inhibition of IDO and BTK	Augusta University	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Investigating mechanisms of Inotuzumab resistance in pediatric B-ALL	New York University School of Medicine	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Peripheral neuropathy in pediatric germ cell tumor survivors	University of Minnesota	Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Project Title

Institutions

Co-Funder(s)

Elucidating Essential Kinase-Independent Functions of ALK

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Novel Synergistic Drug Combinations for Lineage-plastic Pediatric Leukemias

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Social Determinants of Health Associated with Clinical Trial Enrollment in a Diverse Cohort of Children and Adolescents with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

University of California, San Diego

Northwestern Mutual Foundation