2011 Research Awards

PERFORM IN DEPTH MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CLINICAL SAMPLES TO THE SINGLE CELL LEVEL AND ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF TREATMENT ON CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR HETEROGENEITY BEFORE AND DURING TREATMENT

PIs: Paul Mischel, MD, Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
U.C.L.A. School of Medicine

Timothy Cloughesy MD, Director Neuro-Oncology Program
U.C.L.A. School of Medicine

James R. Heath, PhD, Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor
California Institute of Technology

Award:  $2,250,000 over three years            

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEURO-ONCOLOGY IMAGING PROGRAM USING MRI-PET AND MOLECULAR PROBES FOR IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF GLIOMA

PI: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Head of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Program
Stanford University

Award:  $10,000,000 over five years

A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BETWEEN TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS  RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND THE IVY EARLY PHASE CLINICAL TRIALS CONSORTIUM (UCSF, UCLA, MSKCC, MGH, DFCC) TO DEVELOP INNOVATIVE CLINICAL TRIALS FOR GBM PATIENTS WHICH WILL MATCH AN INDIVIDUAL'S MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY TO TARGETED THERAPIES, INCLUDING ALIGNING GENOMIC INFORMATION, GLIOMA BIOLOGY, PRECISION GUIDED DELIVERY AND ACCESS TO NEW AGENTS

PI: Jeffery Trent, PhD, President and Research Director
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

Award: $5,000,000 over five years