Who We Fund

Investing in Industry and Academic Research

 

We have awarded more than $20 million in brain tumor research funding to world-renowned research investigators and physician-scientists from 42 institutions. We partner with medical research centers, early-stage biotechnology companies and large multi-national pharmaceutical companies.  These partners all share our vision of driving translational research to move treatments as fast as possible from basic discovery to the clinic. 

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Investments in Industry

  • Agios

    ABC2’s investment provided the support Agios needed to move its cancer metabolism project into brain cancer. Prior to our involvement, Agios focused exclusively on leukemia research.

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  • Exosome Diagnostics

    ABC2 and Exosome Diagnostics are collaborating with two leading academic research centers to accelerate the clinical validation of Exosome Diagnostic's biofluid-based diagnostic technology.

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  • Genentech

    ABC2 funded Genentech’s early stage research and clinical trial work to test and develop the drug Avastin to treat brain cancer patients.

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  • Regulus Therapeutics

    Regulus is now working with Samsung Medical Center to develop a microRNA therapeutic to target the “master control switches” in brain tumors.

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  • Tocagen

    ABC2 was the first non-profit organization to fund Tocagen, a biotech company that was able to then go onto raise additional funding for their groundbreaking therapy.

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  • Duke Medicine

    This collaboration establishes a missing link between the biopharmaceutical industry’s efforts to produce life-saving drugs and theoretical knowledge at the cutting edge of scientific inquiry.

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Brain Tumor Research Grants

  • UCLA

    ABC2 is funding the development of a clinical trial to determine if retinoic acid -- Accutane -- might be an effective brain cancer treatment for patients with IDH gene mutations.

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  • Johns Hopkins

    We are funding a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins to test whether mebendazole, a drug already approved by the FDA to fight

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  • Mayo Clinic / T-Gen

    ABC2’s investment helps move forward a novel personalized medicine trial for glioblastoma patients led by Mayo Clinic, one of the leading clinical centers, and TGen, a cutting edge genomics lab.

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  • UCSF

    ABC2 is funding a UCSF project to understand the effects of temozolomide on low-grade gliomas.

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  • DIPG

    ABC2’s investment and scientific guidance is helping to advance the work of an international consortium working on a treatment for a rare pediatric brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).

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  • Exosome Diagnostics

    ABC2 and Exosome Diagnostics are collaborating with two leading academic research centers to accelerate the clinical validation of Exosome Diagnostic's biofluid-based diagnostic technology.

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