The Mischel laboratory is funded by NIH grants through the NINDS and NCI; and through the NCI-sponsored Nanotechnology Cancer Center of Excellence grant to the UCLA/Cal Tech./Institute for Systems Biology team.(http://www.caltechcancer.org/). The Mischel laboratory is also funded through grants from the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation (http://ivyfoundation.org/), the Brain Tumor Funders Collaborative (http://www.braintumorfunders.org/index.php), the Goldhirsh Foundation (http://www.goldhirshfoundation.org/), and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (http://www.abc2.org/). The Mischel laboratory has also received generous donations from: Tim and Carol Hahneman, The Zeiring Family Foundation, Art of the Brain, through Dr. Cloughesy, The Henry Singleton Brain Cancer Research Program, John W. Carson Foundation, Harry Allgauer Foundation in Memory of Doris R. Ullmann, and the Roven Family Foundation in Memory of Dawn Steel.