AYJ Fund

The mission of the AYJ Fund is to bring smiles to kids with cancer, to keep them connected to friends and school through technology, and to support the research of gliomatosis cerebri (GC) and other brain cancers to find the cures.

The fund is dedicated to Anna Yan Ji Arabia who bravely lived with gliomatosis cerebri for three and a half years, was treated with the best medical care available at the Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana Farber, and became an angel at 16 years old on Valentines Day 2013, filled with love and grace. We created the AYJ Fund at that time to advance GC research and make a difference for other children and their families diagnosed with this brain cancer. 

The AYJ Fund was a sponsor of the 1st International Gliomatosis Cerebri Conference at Curie Institute in Paris in 2015, and has continued to be active in all of our GC Conferences and GC research projects. We have remained active in keeping families connected, participating in monthly international conference calls of GC families, our GC Connections Facebook page, and supported the development of the Gliomatosis Cerebri Global website and the GC Registry. The AYJ Fund has supported GC research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Institute of Cancer Research. We are committed to continuing to fund critical research to increase the knowledge of GC and to move effective treatments forward.

 The AYJ Fund is here to support families with a new GC diagnosis, and to connect you with others who have traveled this road.