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)
Characterizing PPM1D Mutations as Oncogenic Drivers of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma	Brown University	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Phenotype of Tumor-Associated Antigen Presenting Cells after Blocking Indoleamine 2-3-Dioxygenase	Augusta University	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Investigating the Interplay between Nucleophosmin and Caspase-2 in Determining Chemosensitivity in Childhood AML - Kenneth McSherry (2018)	University College Dublin	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Targeted Inhibition of CREB for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia	Oakland University	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Identifying Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities in Pediatric Low-grade Gliomas Driven by MYB-QKI Fusions	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
High-Throughput Gene-Editing via Microfluidic Cell Deformability to Enable Off-the-Shelf Allogeneic Cellular Immunotherapies	University of California, Los Angeles	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
The Impact of Hypoxia on Epigenetic Changes in Neuroblastoma	University of Chicago	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Development and Characterization of Novel Models of Human Osteosarcoma Development and Metastasis	University of Minnesota	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Reactivation of p53-Mediated Apoptosis in Neuroblastoma	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
A Characterization of TP53 Mutations Among Pediatric Osteosarcoma Cases	University of Minnesota	Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Project Title

Institutions

Co-Funder(s)

Characterizing PPM1D Mutations as Oncogenic Drivers of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

Brown University

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Phenotype of Tumor-Associated Antigen Presenting Cells after Blocking Indoleamine 2-3-Dioxygenase

Augusta University

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Investigating the Interplay between Nucleophosmin and Caspase-2 in Determining Chemosensitivity in Childhood AML - Kenneth McSherry (2018)

University College Dublin

Northwestern Mutual Foundation