Matthew Larson Foundation for Pediatric

Ironmatt provides assistance to qualified families who have a child undergoing treatment for a brain or central nervous system (cns) cancer. Hardships associated with having a child diagnosed with a cancer include increased expenses as they experience a difficult treatment regimen or extended hospitalization.

Ironmatt increases awareness of Pediatric brain tumors through participation in associations and sponsorship of symposiums. Ironmatt collaborated with leading nonprofit organizations to work together to raise awareness and advance research in an effort to find a cureof childhood cancers.ironmatt co-sponsors symposiums that bring together healthcaare professionals from around the world to present current trends in care, management and treatment of patients with central nervous system tumors.this provides a platform at which new information and results can be shared and new collaborations can be established.

The Foundation (aka "ironmatt") funds cutting-edge research to ultimately find a cure for Pediatric brain tumors. Ironmatt also supports investigators looking into ways to lessen the negative long-term effects that treatment including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation have on a chilkd's growing brain. A medical advisory comitte, composed of doctors from prominent research hospitals nationwide, guides, composed of doctors from prominent research hospitals nationwide, guides the Foundation in determining the scientific merit of medical grants.