CCSG Developmental Funds Awards
DFA Past Awardees
2010/2011
Aykut Uren, MD
Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors for ERG and ETV1 Transcriptive Factors
John Deeken, MD, Kristi Graves, PhD, Arnold Potosky, MHS, PhD
Personalized Medicine through Pharmacogenetics in Treatment of Gastrointestinal Cancer
Ryan McAllister, PhD
Primary Cells in 3D Biomechanics Assay: Motility, Force Generation, and Proteolysis
Anna Riegel, PhD
Development of New Models of Early Stage Breast Cancer
Rabindra Roy, PhD, and Siva Dakshanamurthy, PhD
Inhibitors of Human-N-Methylpurine-CNA Glycosylase and Chemosensitization of Glioblastomas
Yun-Ling Zheng, PhD, MPH, and Xuefeng Liu, MD
Role of Non-Telomeric and Telomeric Activities of Telomerase in Cell Immortilization and Malignant Transformation
2009/2010
Christopher Albanese, PhD, Aykut Üren, MD, Milton L. Brown, Md, PhD, Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, & Bahram Moasser, PhD
Effects of Arsenic Trioxide or VMY-1-103, a GUMC CDK Inhibitor, on Medulloblastoma Proliferation and Apoptosis In Vitro and In Vivo
Yali Kong, PhD & Brent Korba, PhD
Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors for Hepatitis C Virus
Mary Beth Martin, PhD, Jennifer Eng-Wong, MD, & Celia Byrne, PhD
Role of Metalloestrogens in Breast Cancer
2008/2009
Robert Glazer, PhD, Stephen ByersPhD, & M. Blair Marshall, MD
Tumor Stem Cell Signaling in Primary Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Ian Gallicano, PhD, Partha Banerjee, PhD, & Christopher Albanese, PhD
Narrowing the Definition of the Prostate Cancer Stem Cell
Celia Byrne, PhD, & Bassem Haddad, MD
Role of NOS in Breast Cancer: A Feasibility Study
2006/2007
Yun-Ling Zheng, PhD
Telomere Dysfunction and Breast Cancer Risk
2005/2006
Christopher Albanese, PhD
Development of Negative and Positive MR Contrast Agent for Cancer Imaging
Radoslav Goldman, PhD
Isotope Dilution of Peptides for Early Detection of Liver Cancer
Offie Soldin, PhD, MBA
Urban Environmental Pesticides and Childhood Cancer
Aykut Üren, MD
Peptide Inhibitors of Ewing Sarcoma Oncoprotein EWS/FLI1
2004/2005
Kevin FitzGerald, PhD
Functional Characterization of MLL2, a Novel Trithorax Protein
Peter Lebowitz, MD, PhD
Role of PTEN-Regulated Pathways in Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity and Prognosis
Andrew Quong, PhD
Microcantilever-Based Assays of Protein Expression in Breast Cancer
Offie Soldin, PhD, MBA
Urban Environmental Pesticides and Childhood Cancer
Yun-Ling Zheng, PhD
Telomere Dysfunction and Breast Cancer Risk
