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2008 Cancer Grant Recipients

Steven Altschuler, Ph.D., UT Southwest Medical Center
Title of Project: Relating Ovarian Cancer Cell Phenotypes to Drug Sensitivities

James Basilion, Case Western Reserve University
Title of Project: Molecular Imaging for Ex Vivo Identification of Tumor Margin Infiltrates in Resected Breast Cancers

Brian Ceresa, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Title of Project: HPV16 E5 Mediated Cell Fusion in Oncogenesis

Vincent Cryns, M.D., Northwestern University
Title of Project: Cancer Stem Cell-Targeted Therapies for Breast Cancer

Ekaterina Dadachova, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title of Project: Targeting Viral Antigens With Radiolabeled Antibodies as a Novel Approach to Treatment of Cervical Cancer

Daniela Dinulescu, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title of Project: Chemoresistance to Therapy in Ovarian Cancer: Role of Cancer Stem Cells

Nathanael Gray, Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Title of Project: Pharmacological Validation of FGFR as a Target for the Treatment of Breast Cancer

Roger Greenberg, University of Pennsylvania
Title of Project: Systematic Identification of Breast Cancer Susceptibility Gene Candidates Within the BRCA1 Tumor Suppressor Network

Rong Li, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title of Project: Adipose Aromatase Expression and Breast Cancer

Hannah Linden, M.D., University of Washington
Title of Project: Quantitative in Vivo Pharmacodynamics of Breast Cancer Endocrine Therapy Using PET Estrogen Receptor Imaging

M. Marinkovich, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
Title of Project: Tumor-Specific Laminin Precursor Domains in Cervical Carcinoma

John Risinger, Ph.D., The Corporation of Mercer University
Title of Project: Characterization of the PSPHL Gene Preferentially Overexpressed in Gynecologic Cancers from African- Americans

Carol Rosenberg, M.D., Trustees of Boston University, BUMC
Title of Project: Copy Number Variation (CNV) in the Initiation and Progression of Breast Cancer

Pepper Schedin, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center
Title of Project: Role of Macrophages in the Metastatic Spread of Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer

Nita Ahuja, M.D., Johns Hopkins University
Title of Project: Molecular Staging of Breast Cancer Using Methylation Profiles







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