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Oren Becher, MD

Chief, Jack Martin Fund Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Oren Becher, MD

The project

Moving Closer to Establishing an Animal Model of Posterior Fossa A Ependymoma, a Childhood Brain Cancer

PCF's published Our Impact description, checked September 15, 2026. Planned trial, enrollment and site language below is source wording, not a current trial-status update.

This study aims to create a better animal model of Posterior Fossa A ependymoma by testing whether the genes p73 and IGF2 drive tumor formation, with the goal of uncovering disease mechanisms and guiding new treatments.

Read the original PCF Our Impact description