/newsroom/taxonomy/term/11564/all en /newsroom/channels/news/cellular-origins-pediatric-brain-tumors-identified-302813 <p>A research team led by Dr. Claudia Kleinman, an investigator at the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, together with Dr. Nada Jabado, of the Research Institute of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), and Dr. Michael Taylor, of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), discovered that several types of highly aggressive and, ultimately, fatal pediatric brain tumors originate during brain development. The genetic event that triggers the disease happens in the very earliest phases of cellular development, most likely prenatal.</p> Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:08:27 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 189175 at /newsroom