Feinberg: In research
published in
Nature Medicine, Northwestern Medicine scientists have found a molecule that stops the growth of an aggressive pediatric brain tumor. Every year, about 300 children under the age of 10 years old in the
U.S. develop the tumor, referred to as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
(DIPG), which is always fatal. “This tumor kills every single kid who gets DIPG within one year. No
one survives,” said the study’s first author, Andrea Piunti, PhD, a
postdoctoral fellow in the lab of
Ali Shilatifard, PhD, chair and Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
