Richard J. Pietras, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
$500,000 Jessica M. Berman Memorial Fund Senior Investigator Grant
Research Title:
Next-Generation Estrogen Receptor Downregulators for Breast Cancer Therapy
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Phillip Koeffler, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
$500,000 Michele and Ted Kaplan Family Senior Investigator Grant
Research Title:
Synthetic Lethal Drug Discovery In Triple Negative Breast Cancer
John Kyung Lee, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Irving Feintech Family Foundation Research Grant
Research Title:
Targeting Myc Oncoproteins in Advanced Prostate Cancer
Christopher Seet, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Magnolia Council Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Identifying Novel Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Daniel Sanghoon Shin, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Cancer Free Generation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Regulation of PD-L1/L2 Expression in Melanoma
Siwen Hu-Leiskovan, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Katz Family Foundation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Double Immune Suppression Blockade to Treat Melanoma
Chintan Parek, MD
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
$100,000 Cancer Free Generation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Role of the Long Noncoding RNA DANCR in T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Giridharan Ramsingh, MD
University of Southern California
$100,000 Magnolia Council Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Hematopoietic Stem Cell and Progenitor Cell Senescence and Therapy Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Patricia A. Young, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Irving Feintech Family Foundation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Molecular and immunologic correlates of responses to anti-CD 19 chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy
Elizabeth Lihua Budde, MD, PhD
City of Hope
$100,000 Irving Feintech Family Foundation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Optimizing Adoptive Immunotherapy Using Anti-CD22 Chimeric Antigen Receptor Redirected T-C ells for Lymphoma
Hyung C. Suh, MD, PhD
UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
$100,000 John C. Hall Memorial Research Grant
Research Title:
The role of BCOR in Normal Hematopoiesis and Hematopoietic Transformation
Deborah Jean Lee Wong, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Magnolia Council Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Targeting ERK for Metastatic Melanoma
Afsaneh Barzi, MD, PhD
University of Southern California
$100,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Tumor Heterogeneity and Resistance to HER2 Therapy in Gastric Cancer
Michael Choi, MD
University of California, San Diego
$100,000 Magnolia Council Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Inhibition of Wnt signaling to treat Leukemic Stem Cells: A Drug Development Proposal
Helene Marijon, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
$100,000 Irving Feintech Family Foundation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Discover Pathways Whose Inhibition Can Synergize With a PARP Inhibitor in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Dinesh Rao, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Irving Feintech Family Foundation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
The role of lincRNAs in B-lymphoblastic leukemia pathogenesis and diagnosis
Gataree Ngarmchamnanrith, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$100,000 Lakin Family Foundation Career Development Research Grant
Research Title:
Antibody-interferon fusion proteins for treatment of B-cell lymphomas
Maya Koren-Michowitz, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
$100,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Discovery of novel classifications and therapeutic targets using several genomic sequencing approaches
Paolo Abada, MD
University of California, San Diego
$50,000 Hope Rosen Cancer Research Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Sec61β and platinum drug resistance
Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD
City of Hope
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Towards developing novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets in castration-resistant prostate cancer
Ahmed M. Aribi, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Novel understanding and treatment of Acute Leukemia
Andre Scott Jung, MD
University of California, San Diego
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Thrombopoietin’s stabilization of Tensin2, a protein with migrational implications
Nu Lu, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Quercetin: A New Hepatocellular Carcinoma Prevention Paradigm
Arun Singh, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Novel immunotherapies against chemotherapy refractory ovarian cancer
Robert W. Chen, MD
City of Hope
$25,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Using SiRNA to CCNDI to Overcome Chemoresistence in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Herbert A. Eradat, MD, MS
University of California, Los Angeles
$25,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Defining the Molecular Correlates that Determine Activity of Pan-PIM Inhibitor, SGI-1776
Edward Kaverlerchik, MD
University of California, San Diego
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Targeting CML Stem Cells with a Small Molecule Wnt-Signaling Inhibitor
Eddie Garon, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Correlation of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Molecular Profile with Response to Therapeutics
Amir Goldkorn, MD
University of Southern California
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Targeting Prostate Cancer Stem Cells with Telomerase Interference
David Kim, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Pim-1 in Mantle Cell Lymphoma: A Novel Therapeutic Target
Fariborz Mortazavi, MD
Wadsworth VA, Los Angeles
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Transcriptional Regulation of p120-catenin in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Richard Schwab, MD
University of California, San Diego
$50,000 Tower Career Development Grant
Research Title:
Anti-Neu5c Antibodies for Breast Cancer Detection