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 the role of MIF in the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment of Ewing sarcoma	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
A biophysical approach to improve CAR T cell efficacy against diffuse midline gliomas	St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Incidence and grades of adverse events during treatment for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia	Emory University	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Identification of phenotypic effects of genomic changes in retinoblastoma tumors using an aqueous humor liquid biopsy	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Effects of standardized, prospective Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) monitoring on the natural history and outcomes of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder and EBV-associated smooth muscle tumor in pediatric solid organ transplantation patients	Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Epigenetic control of cell state in retinoid resistant neuroblastoma	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
IL7 signaling enhanced CAR T cells to treat pediatric solid tumors	Baylor College of Medicine	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Maternal comorbid conditions and the risk of pediatric cancer	University of North Texas	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Using rapid protein degradation to determine the effect of RUNX1 loss-of-function on DNA damage accumulation and repair	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Northwestern Mutual Foundation
Neuronal Regulation of Pediatric Brain Tumor Growth	Washington University	Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Project Title

Institutions

Co-Funder(s)

Elucidating the role of MIF in the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment of Ewing sarcoma

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

A biophysical approach to improve CAR T cell efficacy against diffuse midline gliomas

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Northwestern Mutual Foundation

Incidence and grades of adverse events during treatment for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Emory University

Northwestern Mutual Foundation