It is our pleasure to provide a grant supporting Damon Runyon Fellow Dr. Beverly Piggot’s work in understanding the role of ion channels in brain cancer at the University of California. This article outlines her mother’s journey battling and surviving cancer over the past two decades. It is her mother’s journey that has lead Dr. Piggot’s drive to protect other families from the struggle that has plagued hers. http://www.ascopost.com/issues/september-1,-2014/cancer-has-given-me-courage.aspx