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The Swifty Foundation

The Swifty Foundation was founded by Michael Gustafson before his death from brain cancer in 2013 at the age of 15. Michael’s “Master Plan” was to donate his tumor tissue to science so a cure might be found for other children. Since that time, the Swifty Foundation has started Gift from a Child, a national initiative to promote post-mortem tissue donation and open-access data sharing.  Besides tissue donation Swifty focuses on funding brain cancer research and promoting collaboration within the childhood cancer community.

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Co-Funded Projects

Project Title Institutions Co-Funder(s)
Small Molecule Degraders for Targeting Transcription Factor Drivers of Childhood Cancers St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Layla’s Legacy Foundation, The Swifty Foundation
Targeting symmetric division in pediatric cancers Dana-Farber Cancer Institute The Swifty Foundation
Targeting TGFb Pathway Dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma University of California San Francisco The Swifty Foundation
Exploring Synthetic Lethality of One-Carbon Metabolism Genes and mTORC1 Inhibition in MYCN Amplified Medulloblastoma University of California Berkeley The Swifty Foundation
De-escalation of Radiotherapy for Medulloblastoma by a Novel DNA Damage Checkpoint Inhibitor Feinstein Institute for Medical Research - North Shore The Swifty Foundation
Targeting Eya2 to Inhibit c-Myc driven Medulloblastoma Tumor Progression - Melanie Vincent, PhD (2016) University of Colorado Denver The Swifty Foundation
Pre-clinical Testing of Novel Glutamine Metabolic Inhibitors in MYC-driven Medulloblastoma The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Swifty Foundation

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