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2009 Cancer Grant Recipients

Eric J. Brown, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Title of Project: Treatment of ovarian and breast cancers through partial inhibition of the DNA replication checkpoint.

Viyakrishna K. Gadi, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title of Project: Fetal Microchimerism in Breast Cancer

Paloma H. Giangrande, Ph.D., The University of Iowa
Title of Project: Multifunctional Aptamer-siRNA Chimeras Targeting EphA2 Expressing Breast Cancers

Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D., The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
Title of Project: Mechanism of a TGFBR-JUND single cell dichotomy and its role in breast tumorigenesis

Paul F. Lambert, Ph.D., The Board of Regents of the Universtiy of Wisconsin System
Title of Project: A New Therapy for Cervical Cancer: Preclinical Studies

Mark Moasser, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Title of Project: Breaking the HER3 barrier in the treatment of HER2-amplifed breast cancer

Lynne Regan, Ph.D., Yale University
Title of Project: Development of a Novel Class of Hsp90 Inhibitors as Anti-Cancer Therapeutics

Julie Schwarz, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University
Title of Project: Targeting the premetastatic niche in cervical cancer

Philip W. Shaul, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title of Project: Breast cancer modulation by 27-hydroxycholesterol, the first identifed endogenous SERM

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Jose M. Silva, Ph.D., Columbia University
Title of Project: Genetic synthetic lethality: Genetics approaches for personalized breast cancer therapy

Thomas Westbrook, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Title of Project: Discovering therapeutic targets for breast cancer with new technologies

Jing Yang, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Title of Project: Dissecting the transcription network in breast tumor metastasis

Binhua (Peter) Zhou, M.D., Ph.D., The University of Texas Medical Branch
Title of Project: Dissecting the dysregulaiton of epithelial-mesenchymal transition at breast cancer metastasis







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