The Max Lacewell Foundation, LLC. (the “Foundation”) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation established by Max’s family to finance medical research for pediatric brain tumors, including DIPG pediatric brain stem tumors. Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma brain stem tumors are extremely rare. Approximately 150-200 cases per year are reported nationwide, which unfortunately relegates this form of cancer to “orphan” status within the medical research community, as too few children develop this type of brain tumor to warrant the necessary investment of scarce medical research dollars to find a cure. Because these tumors could not be biopsied until recently, what little research that is being done uses adult blastomas as proxies for DIPG research. The problem is blastomas are not a very good proxy for DIPG’s. The Max Lacewell Foundation will raise funds and awareness to support meaningful research in the pursuit of a cure for DIPG. Public and private funding for all of pediatric cancer research amounts to less than three percent of funds targeted for total cancer research. Pediatric brain tumor research receives barely a fraction of those dollars. Donate now and help us find a cure so that “little dudes & dudettes” have more powerful tools to fight this insidious disease.