Research Grants

Previous Grant Awards

2011 Grant Recipients

• Dinesh Rao, MD - The role of lincRNAs in B-lymphoblastic leukemia pathogenesis and diagnosis (UCLA)
• Gataree Ngarmchamnanrith, MD - Antibody-interferon fusion proteins for treatment of B-cell lymphomas(UCLA)
• Maya Koren-Michowitz, MD - Discovery of novel classifications and therapeutic targets using several genomic sequencing approaches (Cedars-Sinai)
• Paolo Abada, MD - Sec61 and platinum drug resistance (UCSD)
• Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD - Towards developing novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets in castration resistant prostate cancer (City of Hope)

2010 Grant Recipients

• Ahmed M. Aribi, MD - Novel understanding and treatment of Acute Leukemia (UCLA)
• Andre Scott Jung, MD - Thrombopoietin's stabilization of Tensin2, a protein with migrational implications (UCSD)
• Nu Lu, MD - Quercetin: A new heptocellular carcinmoa prevention paradigm (UCLA)
• Arun Singh, MD - Novel immunotherapies against chemotherapy refractory ovarian cancer (UCLA)

2009 Grant Recipients

• Edward Kaverlerchik, MD - Targeting Prostate Cancer Stem Cells with Telomerase Interference - (USC) Ronnie Lippin - Tower Cancer Research Fellowship
• Robert W. Chen, MD - Using SiRNA to CCND1 to Overcome Chemoresistence in Mantle Cell lymphoma (City of Hope)
• Herbert A. Eradat, MD - Defining the Molecular Correlates that Determine Activity of Pan-PIM Inhibitor SGI-1776 (UCLA)

2008 Grant Recipients

• David Kim, MD - Pim-1 in Mantle Cell Lymphoma: A Novel Therapeutic Target - (UCLA)
• Fariborz Mortazavi, MD - Transcriptional Regulation of p120-catenin in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - (Wadsworth VA, Los Angeles) Research Publication
• Eddie Garon, MD - Correlation of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Molecular Profile with Response to Therapeutics - (UCLA)
• Amir Goldkorn, MD - Targeting Prostate Cancer Stem Cells with Telomerase Interference (USC)

2007 Grant Recipients

• Richard Schwab, MD - Anti-Neu5c Antibodies for Breast Cancer Detection - (UCSD) Ronnie Lippin – Tower Cancer Research Fellowship
• Saskia Gueller, MD - Novel Gene Discovery and Classification for Mantle Cell Lymphoma - (Cedars Sinai Medical Center)
• Zev Wainberg, MD - Inhibiting Src in Colorectal Cancer: Characterization and Identification of Molecular Biomakers - (UCLA)

2006 Grant Recipients

• Vincent Chung, MD - Targeted Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer : A New Era of Treatment - (City of Hope)
• William D. Tap, MD - Myelodysplastic Inhibition of Protein Farnesylation: A promising and Potentially Unifying Treatment Modality in Sarcomas - (Cedars Sinai Medical Center)
• Norihiko Kawamata, MD - MDS- Novel Gene Discovery and Classification (Cedars Sinai Medical Center) Research Publication