Dr. Yanxin Pei Receives Prestigious Grant from V Foundation

Dr. Yanxin Pei receives prestigious grant from V Foundation Yanxin Pei, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Brain Tumor Institute and the Children’s Research Institute at Children’s National Hospital, was recently awarded a prestigious grant by V Foundation to support her groundbreaking work in finding new treatments for childhood medulloblastoma. Having already developed one of the most important mouse models of this disease, Dr. Pei’s present V Foundation Award, which includes becoming a V scholar, will explore the role of metabolism in the development of metastasis in MYC-amplified medulloblastomas.

Melanoma drug shows promise for NF1 plexiforms A class of drugs originally approved for stopping tumor growth in adult cancers may be the key to treating plexiform neurofibromas in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), too. If effective, doctors will finally have a treatment to offer for children with complicated plexiform neurofibromas that can’t be removed via surgery. Preserving brain function by inducing strokes By inflicting controlled, targeted strokes, Children’s National physician-researchers have treated five newborns born with intractable seizures due to hemimegalencephaly before they’re eligible for epilepsy surgery. In the four surviving infants, the procedures drastically reduced or completely relieved the infants' uncontrollable seizures. Cardiac surgery chief recognized for studies of surgery’s impacts on neurodevelopment Richard Jonas, M.D., received the Newburger-Bellinger Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Award in recognition of his research on the impact of cardiac surgery on the growth and development of the brain. Children’s National co-hosts the 4th International Symposium on hypothalamic hamartomas The symposium focused on the psychiatric, neuropsychological, neurological and endocrinological comorbidities of Hypothalamic Hamartomas, as well as treating the whole person.

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