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
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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
University of California, Irvine
$100,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Targeting Liver Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Functional Epigenomics of Transgenic Cellular Immunotherapies for Cancer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
University of Southern California
$500,000 Magnolia Council Senior Investigator Grant
Research Title:
Targeting Mismatch Repair System for Cancer Therapy
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
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
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
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
$1M Jack Mishkin Discovery Fund
Research Title:
Discovery Fund