
There has never been a more hopeful time in history to invest in childhood cancer research.
Brain cancer is the deadliest childhood cancer, the Pediatric Neuro-oncology Consortium (PNOC) brings together the world's best 300+ clinicians and researchers to push for breakthroughs.
A scientific consortium with a global presence, PNOC unites the world's leading hospitals in an unprecedented collaboration to find cures and save lives.
Lose No Child is our bold and urgent $50 million campaign driving progress to transform treatment, advance research, and develop safer, more effective therapies for kids with brain cancer.
Your gift will help us reach a future where we lose no child to brain cancer.
We are a GuideStar platinum rated registered 501(c)3, and proud to be one of San Francisco's 2025 Philanthropy Award Winners.
When a family first hears that their child has a brain tumor, their whole world is changed. Fast, complex decisions must be made while they are still shocked by an unimaginable diagnosis. Unfortunately for a lot of pediatric brain tumor diagnoses, there is no standard of care.
In 2010 our son George started experiencing morning headaches and nausea. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor, an ependymoma, the size of a small orange, located on the right side of his brain. George underwent 10 hours of surgery and 31 sessions of subsequent radiation therapy. George is now in college and we know we are blessed. We pledge to make the difference in the lives of other children and their families affected by brain tumors by raising awareness and funds for research and clinical trials.
When our own son George was diagnosed with brain cancer, treatment options were limited – there was no precision medicine, no genetic sequencing or subtyping, there weren’t any new promising therapies, very few clinical trials and treatment centers were working largely in isolation from each other.
We were shocked to learn that scientific collaboration was not the norm, far from it. Academic advancement, competition for the limited available research grants and the rare nature of this disease and corresponding lack of economic incentive for Big Pharma were all forces conspiring against cooperation and collaboration to defeat this monster. Treatments and outcomes had not progressed in over 50 years.
When Dr’s Michael Prados and Sabine Mueller at UCSF asked us to form a non-profit to support a transformative initiative of true collaboration, institutional partnership and information sharing to accelerate discovery, progress, better treatments and ultimately a cure, we didn’t hesitate. PNOC Foundation was formed to exclusively support the work of the PNOC Scientific Consortia.
-- Bruce and Allyn Campbell, PNOC Foundation Co-founders