2010 RESEARCH AWARDS
CIRCULATING BIOMARKERS THAT PREDICT RESPONSE TO AN IRREVERSIBLE PAN-HER KINASE INHIBITOR IN EGFR-AMPLIFIED GBM.
PI: Andrew S. Chi, MD, PhD, Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology.
Massachusetts General/ Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Award: $150,000 for one year.
TUMOR-SPECIFIC RADIATION SENSITIZATION IN GLIOBLASTOMA BY TARGETING THE P53-INDEPENDENT CHECKPOINT RESPONSE.
PI: Prakash Chinnaiyan, MD, Assistant Member Department of Radiation Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.
Award: $150,000 for one year.
FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A PERSONALIZED AND ADAPTABLE CANCER VACCINE FOR PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA.
PI: Duane A. Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Associate Director, Duke Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program.
The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke.
Award: $150,000 for one year
PERSONALIZED IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR GLIOBLASTOMA: GENETIC SIGNATURES THAT MAY PREDICT RESPONSIVENESS.
PI: Robert M. Prins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, U.C. Los Angeles School of Medicine
U.C.L.A. School of Medicine.
Award: $150,000 for one year
2010 HHMI-IVY FELLOWS
Aquilanti, Elisa Annie
Project Title: Identification of self-renewal- and differentiation-regulating genes in normal and malignant neural stem cells through functional genetic studies.
Medical Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Year 2)
Fellowship Institution: Harvard Medical School
Research Fields: Cell Biology, Cancer Research
Mentor: DePinho, Ronald A.
Pendleton, Courtney
Project Title: Hypoxia and Chemoattraction in Genetically Engineered Adipose-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Migration and Homing to Human-derived Glioblastomas
Medical Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Year 3)
Fellowship Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research Fields: Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neuro-Oncology
Mentor: Quinones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
Co-mentor: Levchenko, Andre
Chen, Linda
Project Title: Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (AMSC): Anti-Tumor Effect and Fate in the Glioma Microenvironment Project
Medical Institution: Duke University School of Medicine (Year 2)
Fellowship Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research Fields: Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Molecular Biology
Mentor: Quinones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
Co-mentor: Gilad, Assaf A
Voce, David James
Project Title: NF-kB1- p50 and the response of gliomas to temozolomide
Medical Institution: University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences and Pritzker School of Medicine (Year 2)
Fellowship Institution: University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences and Pritzker School of Medicine
Research Fields: Neuroscience, Oncology
Mentor: Yamini, Bakhtiar
Co-mentor: Khodarev, Nikolai N
Kaur, Gurvinder
Project Title: Role of complement activation in glioma proliferation.
Medical Institution: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine (Year 3)
Fellowship Institution: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Research Fields: Immunology; Molecular Biology; Oncology
Mentor: Parsa, Andrew T