$10 Million in Grants to TGen Will Target Brain Cancer

A local brain-cancer foundation’s $10 million in grants to TGen started with a question: Why do 2 percent of people with an aggressive type of brain cancer defy the odds and live much longer than others?

Researchers at Translational Genomics Research Institute, or TGen, will use funding from Scottsdale-based Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation to complete a five-year study that aims to uncover genetic clues to glioblastoma multiforme. The aggressive brain cancer has a median survival rate of about 18 months, though about 2 percent of disease-sufferers live longer.

Photo: Catherine Ivy

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