Brain Science Foundation Receives $55,000 from Meningioma Mommas
Donation Will be Used to Generate Pilot Data for a Genome Wide Association Study for Meningioma
Left to Right: BSF Director, Jim Corcoran, Meningioma Mommas Founder, Liz Holzemer, BWH's Dr. Elizabeth Claus and BSF Founder, Steven Haley |
Meningioma Mommas Founder and BSF Trustee Liz Holzemer presented a $55,000 check to the Brain Science Foundation in Boston on October 23, 2008, to further enable Dr. Elizabeth Claus's groundbreaking research into the environmental genetic, pathologic and clinical variables associated with meningioma risk. To read more about the Meningioma Consortium Study, please
click here. Specifically, this latest donation from Meningioma Mommas will be applied toward Dr. Claus’s recently launched meningioma genome wide association study, which represents the first effort, worldwide, to obtain pilot data for a genome wide association study for meningioma.
It is Dr. Claus’s hope that data generated from the genetic and hormone receptor analyses of 200 cases drawn from Massachusetts and Connecticut will help to better define predictors of outcome for patients with meningioma.
To date, Meningioma Mommas has provided $85,000 to the Brain Science Foundation specifically for the epidemiological research that Dr. Elizabeth Claus and her colleagues have conducted. In addition to providing an online support group for all those affected by meningioma brain tumors, Meningioma Mommas has partnered with the Brain Science Foundation and the Brigham and Women's Hospital to help raise awareness of meningiomas and to advocate for an improved quality of life for all meningioma patients and survivors. The organization has committed to raising $1 million to advance meningioma-related research.
