Children's Brain Tumor Project Lab at Weill Cornell

The Children's Brain Tumor Project was founded in 2011 at the Weill Cornell Pediatric Brain and Spine Center. The project owes its inspiration and launch to Elizabeth Minter, whose battle with gliomatosis cerebri — a rare and inoperable brain tumor — inspired her surgeon, Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield, to undertake this groundbreaking research initiative. In starting the Children's Brain Tumor Project, Dr. Greenfield joined forces with Dr. Mark Souweidane, who had already spent a decade researching and testing alternative therapeutic delivery systems for other inoperable brain cancers, such as DIPG. The Children's Brain Tumor Project has a single goal: to bring hope to the hundreds of patients and families each year who confront these heartbreaking diagnoses. Gliomatosis cerebri and DIPG are just two examples of the devastating brain tumors that typically strike children, adolescents, and young adults. Because they are so rare, these inoperable tumors simply do not get the funding or attention that research scientists need to find a cure.