Our Team
The International DIPG Registry and Repository
The Clinical Management and Research Support Core (CMRSC) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is the coordinating center for the Registry. A whole team is needed to organize the data, follow-up with each of our participants, handle the specimens and organize the research. Participants and their families, physicians and researchers will speak with one of our staff members below.
Coordinating Center and Staff
| Coordinating CenterCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | DIPG Tissue Repository SiteCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | 
Clinical Research Coordinator
                                    
                                    Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
                                    
                                
Clinical Research Coordinator
                                    
                                    Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
                                    
                                
Statistician
                                    
                                    Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
                                    
                                
DIPG/DMG Registry Steering Committee
                                    
                                    Chairman, The Cure Starts Now Foundation
Founder, The DIPG/DMG Collaborative
Cincinnati, OH, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
IWK Health Center and Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Director of Developmental Therapeutics
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Atlanta, GA, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Professor, Neuropathology
Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Chair, Department of Child Health & Senior Vice President, Research 
Phoenix Children's Hospital
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Phoenix, AZ USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Eminent Staff Specialist in Pediatric Oncology
Co-Director, Children's Brain Cancer Center 
Queensland Children's Hospital
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Neuropathologist, Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine
The Hospital for Sick Children
Garron Family Chair in Childhood Cancer Research
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Toronto, ON, Canada
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Co-Director of the Cure Starts Now Foundation Brain Tumor Center
Cincinnati, Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Chief, Neuroradiology
Associate Director for Clinical Operations
Medical Director, MRI
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Attending Pediatric Neuro-Oncologist, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Associate Professor, Hematology/Oncology
Principal Investigator, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorder Research
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Clinical Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Boston, MA, USA
                                    
                                
DIPG/DMG Registry Scientific Advisory Committee
                                    
                                    Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD
Pediatric Neuro-Oncologist
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Boston, MA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Garron Family Chair in Childhood Cancer Research
Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program
Professor of Pediatrics
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, ON, Canada
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Professor, Neuropathology
Upstate Medical University
Department of Pathology
Syracuse, NY, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Associate Professor
Lead, Neuro-Oncology and Clinical Research
Royal Children's Hospital
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Eminent Staff Specialist in Pediatric Oncology
Co-Director, Children's Brain Cancer Center 
Queensland Children's Hospital
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Neuropathologist, Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine
The Hospital for Sick Children
Garron Family Chair in Childhood Cancer Research
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Toronto, ON, Canada
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Chief, Neuroradiology
Associate Director for Clinical Operations
Medical Director, MRI
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Rachelle and Mark Gordon Endowed Professor of Cancer Biology and Epigenetics
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Program of Precision Medicine PDOX Modeling of Pediatric Tumors, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Director, Developmental Therapeutics Core, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Attending Pediatric Neuro-Oncologist, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Associate Professor, Hematology/Oncology
Principal Investigator, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorder Research
Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle, WA, USA
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Clinical Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Boston, MA, USA
                                    
                                
The SIOPE DIPG/DMG Registry
The SIOPE DIPG Registry Coordinating Center is located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The SIOPE DIPG Registry Coordinating Center staff are responsible for organizing the research efforts across Europe, including but not limited to, patient enrollment, data entry, specimen donation coordination, research project facilitation, and performance site management.
SIOPE DIPG/DMG Registry Coordinating Center and Contacts
Scientific Coordinator
                                    
                                    Pediatric Oncologist/Hematologist
Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Utrecht, The Netherlands
                                    
                                
Registry Coordinator
                                    
                                    Dutch Childhood Oncology Group
Utrecht, The Netherlands
                                    
                                
Executive Committee Members
                                    
                                    Pediatric Oncologist/Hematologist
Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Utrecht, The Netherlands
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Pediatric Oncologist/Hematologist
University Medical Center Goettingen
Goettingen, Germany
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Pediatric Oncologist
Gustave Roussy Institute
Villejuif, France
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Pediatric Oncologist
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Milano, Italy
                                    
                                
                                    
                                    Neurosurgeon
Charite-Univesritatsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany