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2025 Grant Awards

Applications Accepted No Earlier Than January 1, 2025

Emerging Leader Grant Award

The Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation Emerging Leader Award provides grant support to early-to-mid-career investigators conducting high-impact, high-reward translational research for glioblastoma. This award is intended to support ambitious pilot projects designed to identify drug strategies appropriate for early-phase pharmacodynamic- and pharmacokinetic-driven clinical trials in partnership with the Ivy Brain Tumor Center.

Translational Adult Glioma Award

The Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation Emerging Adult Glioma Award provides grant support to investigators conducting high-impact, high-reward translational research for glioblastoma. This award is intended to support projects designed to contribute to identifying therapies that will impact the survival of patients with brain cancer.

The Ivy Brain Tumor Center is a non-profit translational research program that employs a bold, early-phase clinical trials strategy to identify new treatments for aggressive brain tumors, including glioblastoma.

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Ivy Phase 0 Clinical Trials

The Ivy Center’s Phase 0 clinical trials program is the largest of its kind in the world and enables personalized care in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional drug development. Unlike conventional clinical trials focusing on single drugs, the Ivy Center’s accelerated trials program tests therapeutic combinations matched to individual patients. 

Patient Story

Carol Stevens

Carol Stevens, who faced a glioblastoma recurrence just six months after standard treatment, found new hope in a clinical trial at the Ivy Brain Tumor Center. With a tailored approach that utilized an experimental drug specific to her tumor’s genetics, Carol experienced significant progress, underscoring the trial’s personalized and innovative strategy. Her story highlights the crucial role of clinical trials in providing options where standard treatments fall short. Read her full story!

Ivy Center Headquarters

Opening in 2024

The Ivy Brain Tumor Center is well underway on the construction of its new headquarters, the world’s largest translational research center dedicated solely to brain tumor drug development and treatment. The new building, located on the Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center campus in Phoenix, Arizona, will be home to the Ivy Center’s scientists, investigators, clinicians and operational staff. In addition to laboratory space, the new building will house 14,000 square feet for trials infrastructure and 7,000 square feet for multidisciplinary clinical consultation, an MRI-guided ultrasound suite and a video teleconference auditorium.

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Support Brain Tumor Research

Donations to the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation can be made via check and mailed to:
6710 North Scottsdale Road, #235, Scottsdale, AZ 85253

Donations to the Ivy Brain Tumor Center at Barrow Neurological Institute can be made via the link below.

A Message from Catherine Ivy

The Ivy Foundation has the long-term, ultimate goal to cure brain cancer. To that end, we fund cutting-edge research that will improve diagnostics and treatment options for patients with brain cancer. Since 2005, we’ve committed more than $165 million to brain tumor research, with the expectation that this will lead to an eventual cure. We are dedicated to this effort because funding leads to answers, and answers lead to hope.

Ivy Neurological Sciences Internship Program at TGen prepares student-scientists for the next phase of their careers.

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