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Research

 

Research for tomorrow. Support for today.

Joseph Crompton, MD, PhD

Joseph Crompton, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Stem Cell Reprogramming of Anti-Tumor T Cells
Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD

Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD

University of California, San Diego $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Identify Lymphatic Niche Drivers of Oncogenic Tissue Remodeling and Tumorigenesis
Christopher Halbrook, PhD

Christopher Halbrook, PhD

University of California, Irvine $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Targeting Liver Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Kunal Patel, MD

Kunal Patel, MD

University of California, Los Angeles $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Targeting infiltrating glioblastoma via pH sensitive visualization of tumor and pH modulation through bicarbonate transporter SLC4A4
Ling Li, PhD

Ling Li, PhD

City of Hope $500,000 Tower Senior Investigator Grant

Research Title: A Novel Approach to Elicit Anti-tumor Immunity Against Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Matthew Hangauer, PhD

Matthew Hangauer, PhD

University of California, San Diego $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Uncovering the Scope of DFFB-Mediated Cancer-Acquired Drug Resistance
Md Kamrul Hasan, PhD

Md Kamrul Hasan, PhD

University of California, San Diego $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Exploring DOCK2 Activation In Drug Resistance And Pathogenesis Of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Simon Gayther, PhD

Simon Gayther, PhD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $500,000 Tower Senior Investigator Grant

Research Title: Novel Drug Targets for High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer identified through Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Modeling of Disease
Brian Na, MD

Brian Na, MD

University of California, Los Angeles $100,000 Angie and Michael David Career Development Grant

Research Title: Cold Atmospheric Plasma for the Treatment of NF1-related Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
Unmesh Jadhav, PhD

Unmesh Jadhav, PhD

University of Southern California $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Epigenetic control of stem cell plasticity in colorectal cancer development and recurrence
Alexander Xu, PhD

Alexander Xu, PhD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Single Cell Spatial Analysis of DLBCL to Develop Biomarkers and Optimize CAR T Therapy
John Carpten, PhD

John Carpten, PhD

City of Hope $500,000 Barry Rosenbloom, MD Senior Investigator Grant

Research Title: The impact of alpha catenin loss on DNA repair defects in triple negative breast cancer
Lili Yang, PhD

Lili Yang, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles $500,000 Magnolia Council Senior Investigator Grant

Research Title: Targeting Monoamine Oxidase A to Expand Cancer Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy
Jun Gong, MD

Jun Gong, MD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $100,000 Rosen Cherney Tower Golf Tournament Research Grant

Research Title: Performance of hypermethylated circulating tumor DNA’s in colorectal cancer
Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD

Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD

University of Southern California $100,000 Howard and Reva Colover Trust Career Development Research Grant

Research Title: Sensitizing the tumor immune microenvironment of breast cancer
Wenqi Wang, PhD

Wenqi Wang, PhD

University of California, Irvine $100,000 Cancer Free Generation Career Development Research Grant

Research Title: Harnessing the Hippo signaling pathway to counteract chemoresistance
Jlenia Guarnerio, PhD

Jlenia Guarnerio, PhD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Identifying novel therapeutic targets in circular RNAs that bolster the sarcoma-protective microenvironment
Theodore Scott Nowicki, MD, PhD

Theodore Scott Nowicki, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Functional Epigenomics of Transgenic Cellular Immunotherapies for Cancer
Soo Park, MD

Soo Park, MD

University of California, San Diego $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Use of Metformin for Prevention of Clonal Progression to Therapy-Related MDS/AML
Steven Jonas, MD, PhD

Steven Jonas, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles $100,000 Randi and Warren Grant Research Grant

Research Title: Nanosystems to accelerate clinical translation and generation of cellular immunotherapies
Yi-Tsung Lu, MD

Yi-Tsung Lu, MD

University of Southern California $50,000 Jessica M. Berman Memorial Fund Career Development Grant

Research Title: Predicting the metastatic risk of bladder cancer by cell-free DNA methylation sequencing
Martina Roos, PhD, PharmD

Martina Roos, PhD, PharmD

University of California, Los Angeles $50,000 Cancer Free Generation Research Grant

Research Title: Targeting AML Stem Cells using Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of RNA Regulatory Proteins
Michael Karin, PhD

Michael Karin, PhD

University of California, San Diego $500,000 Tower Senior Investigator Grant

Research Title: Using Oxaliplatin to improve the response to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade
Joshua P. Sasine, MD, PhD

Joshua P. Sasine, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles $100,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Eph/Ephrin Signaling Regulates Multiple Myeloma in the Bone Marrow Vascular Niche
John Paul Shen, MD

John Paul Shen, MD

University of California, San Diego $100,000 Cancer Free Generation Career Development Research Grant

Research Title: Synthetic Lethal Networks to Guide Precision Oncology in GI Tumors
Anusha Kalbasi, MD

Anusha Kalbasi, MD

University of California, Los Angeles $50,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Developing a Neoadjuvant Platform to Study Macrophage-Driven Resistance
Dechen Lin, PhD

Dechen Lin, PhD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $50,000 Tower Career Development Grant

Research Title: Modeling Super-Enhancers in Barrett’s esophagus-associated neoplastic evolution
Xiaojiang Chen, PhD

Xiaojiang Chen, PhD

University of Southern California $500,000 Magnolia Council Senior Investigator Grant

Research Title: Targeting Mismatch Repair System for Cancer Therapy
Adam Burgoyne, MD, PhD

Adam Burgoyne, MD, PhD

University of California, San Diego $100,000 Irving Feintech Family Foundation Career Development Grant

Research Title: Dual PI3K and BRD4 Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Kate Lawrenson, PhD

Kate Lawrenson, PhD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $100,000 Magnolia Council Career Development Research Grant

Research Title: Identification and Functional Analysis of PAX8 Binding Site Mutations in Ovarian Cancer
Mina Nikanjam, MD, PhD

Mina Nikanjam, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles $100,000 Cancer Free Generation Career Development Research Grant

Research Title: Development of a Novel dCK Inhibitor for Leukemia and Lymphoma using PET Imaging
Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute

Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center $1M Jack Mishkin Discovery Fund

Research Title: Discovery Fund