Dr. Michelle Monje Reports on Breakthrough DIPG Research Funded by Defeat DIPG & ChadTough

Dr. Michelle Monje is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Stanford University and one of the world’s top researchers in the study of high grade-gliomas. In 2017, Michael Mosier Defeat DIPG Foundation and The ChadTough Foundation awarded a research grant to Dr. Monje for her project, “The Tumor Microtube Network in DIPG: Targeting a Possible ‘Achilles Hill’ Required to Defeat DIPG.”
Through this research, Dr. Monje discovered that deadly brain tumors integrate themselves into the brain’s electrical network and then hijack signals from healthy nerve cells to fuel their own growth.