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Innovation, Partnerships & Progress: 2015 Scientific Summit Highlights Scientific research is the backbone of the National Brain Tumor Society’s (NBTS) mission and programs. When our legacy organizations were formed in the 1980’s the general knowledge in the medical and scientific communities regarding brain tumors and how to treat this disease was very minimal. As such, our founders realized the only way to a […] November 3, 2015

Smarter Classification of Gliomas: NBTS Funded Research NBTS Associate Director of Scientific Operations, Jennifer Helfer, PhD, contributed to this post.  Following the 2014 Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting last November, we recapped how the scientific and medical field was moving toward a smarter classification for the many different types, and subtypes, of brain tumors. Here’s what we wrote at the time: Currently, gliomas by-and-large […] June 22, 2015

Recently in Brain Tumor Research …A round-up of recent brain tumor research news April 11, 2014