Congratulations to the 2026 Foundation Grant Program Recipients

The following have been selected as the 2026 Foundation Grant Program recipients. Each proposal will be funded at $120,000. Congratulations to these investigators.

Ramon Barajas Jr , MD (top left)
Oregon Health & Science University
Leveraging Lipid Nanoparticles for On-Demand Receptor Expression and Targeted Imaging in Glioblastoma

Dheeraj Gandhi, MD (top right)
University of Maryland
Safety and efficacy of Intra-arterial Bevacizumab (IA-BEV) as an Adjunctive Treatment for Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization (MMAE) in Non-surgical Chronic Subdural Hematoma Patients (SAFER-MMAE)

Jana Ivanidze, MD, PhD (bottom left)
Weill Cornell Medicine
Super-Selective Intra-Arterial [Ga68]DOTATATE PET to Enhance Radiotracer Delivery in Meningioma

Hossein Nejadnik, MD, PhD (bottom right)
University of Pennsylvania
Simultaneous Generation and MRI Labeling of mRNA GD2-CAR T Cells for Imaging-Guided Immunotherapy in Diffuse Midline Glioma