
Grants Awarded
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New awards will be posted as they are issued.
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Award Type | Project # | RFA # | PI/Project Leader | Institution | Title | Status |
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2020 | R44 | CA236097 | PAR-18-303 | LIM, MARK | AMBERGEN, INC | Highly Multiplexed Nanoscale Mass Spectrometric Imaging Of Cancer Tissues | Active |
2020 | R21 | CA246358 | RFA-CA-19-019 | SEELIG, GEORG | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | High-resolution spatial transcriptomics through light patterning | Active |
2020 | R43 | CA250805 | PAR-18-303 | WANG, SHA | VIVID TECHNOLOGIES | New specific and rapid assay for in situ apoptosis labeling for cancer studies | Active |
2020 | R43 | CA250885 | PAR-18-303 | REDER, NICHOLAS | LIGHTSPEED MICROSCOPY, INC. | Open-top Light-sheet Microscopy For Non-destructive 3d Pathology Of Prostate Biopsies | Active |
2020 | R21 | CA247671 | RFA-CA-19-019 | MARTO, JARROD A | DANA-FARBER CANCER INST | Tools for DUB Drug Discovery | Active |
2020 | R21 | CA240220 | RFA-CA-19-019 | ALEXANDRAKIS, GEORGIOS | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON | Nanotechnology Enabled Selection Of MHC-peptide Ligands To Personalize Cancer Therapy | Active |
2020 | R21 | CA251052 | RFA-CA-19-019 | SHVETS, GENNADY | CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Phenotypic Assay For Drug Discovery And Personalized Medicine Based On Real-time Vibrational Spectroscopy Enhanced By Plasmonic Metasurfaces | Active |
2020 | R33 | CA240181 | RFA-CA-19-020 | COOKS, ROBERT GRAHAM | PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Advanced Development of Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Intraoperative Molecular Diagnosis of Brain Cancer using Pathology Biopsies | Active |
2020 | R33 | CA247739 | RFA-CA-19-020 | MATRIX BHATNAGAR, PARIJAT | SRI INTERNATIONAL | T-cell Biofactories For Targeting Extracellular Matrix | Active |
2021 | R21 | CA236686 | CA20-017 | FARIS, GREGORY W | NUMENTUS TECHNOLOGIES INC. | Decoding Individual Exosomes in Cancer | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA255894 | RFA-CA-20-017 | XIAO, HAN | RICE UNIVERSITY | Development of Bone-Targeting Antibodies for Ewing Sarcoma Using Genetic Code Expansion | Active |
2021 | R44 | CA261523 | PAR-18-303 | HUNG, PAUL JU-SUNG | COMBINATI, INC. | Digital Melt Curve Analysis Platform for Longitudinal Cancer Patient Monitoring | Active |
2021 | R21 | CA255979 | CA20-017 | DIDENKO, VLADIMIR V | BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | In situ assay imaging nuclear RNA exosome activity for cancer studies | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA256081 | RFA-CA-20-017 | SWAGER, TIMOTHY M | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Innovative Droplet Lenses for NextGen Light Sensors of Biomarkers of Inflammation | Active |
2021 | R21 | CA251043 | CA20-017 | HOSHIKA, SHUICHI | FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTN | High Quality Proteins with Multiple Post Translational Modifications | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA261737 | CA20-017 | HAINER, SARAH JANE | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH | Using nanobodies to increase the sensitivity and resolution of chromatin profiling through uliCUT&RUN | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA256082 | RFA-CA-20-017 | BAR-PELED, LIRON | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | Chemical Proteomic Identification of Druggable Oncogenic Transcription Factors | Active |
2021 | R21 | CA256084 | CA20-017 | DI CARLO, DINO | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | Lab on a particle technology for functional screening of therapeutic cells | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA256128 | CA20-017 | DEININGER, MICHAEL W | VERSITI WISCONSIN, INC. | A Bioluminescent Assay for Direct Measurement of Sirtuin Activity in Cancer Cells | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA258019 | RFA-CA-20-017 | CHEN, KAI | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | Novel Bisphosphonate PET Probes for Myeloma Bone Disease | Active |
2021 | R21 | CA258013 | CA20-019 | NAUTIYAL, SHIVANI | PRIME GENOMICS, INC. | Device for Preservation of Cell Free RNA in Saliva | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA251027 | CA20-017 | SCHULMAN, REBECCA | JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | Secretion responsive Hydrogels for Identification of Functional single T cells (SHIFT) | Complete |
2021 | R33 | CA247700 | RFA-CA-20-018 | JI, HANLEE P | STANFORD UNIVERSITY | Multimodal iterative sequencing of cancer genomes and single tumor cells | Active |
2021 | R21 | CA261734 | CA20-019 | AKSAN, ALPTEKIN | UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | Novel cryopreservation method for stabilization of manufactured therapeutic cells | Complete |
2021 | R33 | CA247744 | RFA-CA-20-018 | GARTNER, ZEV JORDAN | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO | Universal Sample Multiplexing for Single Cell Analysis | Active |
2021 | R21 | CA263147 | CA20-017 | BHARGAVA, ROHIT | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | Spectroscopy Assisted Laser Microdissection | Complete |
2021 | R33 | CA251006 | RFA-CA-20-020 | HAUN, JERED BRACKSTON | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE | Microfluidic tumor tissue processing platform for single cell diagnostics | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA252158 | CA20-018 | ZENG, YONG | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | Integrative Functional Profiling of Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA236665 | RFA-CA-20-019 | SANTORE, MARIA M | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | Paper-based Breastmilk Collection System for Facile, In-Home Use | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA255893 | RFA-CA-20-018 | SEELIG, GEORG | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Joint receptor and protein expression immunophenotyping through split-pool barcoding | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA256086 | CA20-018 | JIANG, NING JENNY | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | A streamlined, high-throughput platform for validation of cancer antigen presentation and isolation of cancer antigen reactive T cells | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA247647 | RFA-CA-20-017 | WILSON, GERALD M | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE | Suppressing oncogenic RNA regulons using engineered zinc finger ribonucleases | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA256102 | RFA-CA-20-018 | GREENBERG, JOEL | DUKE UNIVERSITY | Multimodality X-ray transmission and diffraction scanner for molecular analysis of cancer specimens | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA256112 | CA20-018 | WEI, WEI | INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | Liquid biopsy-based toolkits for neoantigen and cognate TCR discovery for cancer immunotherapy | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA250597 | RFA-CA-20-017 | ZHANG, FANGLIANG | UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | Targeted degradation of proteins by affinity peptide conjugated ubiquitin (APCU) | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA257878 | RFA-CA-20-018 | HANSEN, ANDERS SEJR | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Super-resolution microscopy for dynamic analysis of focal enhancer amplifications in cancer | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA261726 | CA20-018 | CHENG, JI-XIN | BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) | Mapping Cancer Metabolism by Mid-infrared Photothermal Microscopy | Complete |
2021 | R21 | CA251015 | RFA-CA-20-017 | STILL, AMANDA NICOLE HAYMOND | GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | New Hybrid Molecular Modalities Comprised of DNA-Origami and Interfering Peptides as Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions | Active |
2021 | R33 | CA258016 | RFA-CA-20-018 | LIU, XUEFENG | OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | Validating Urine Derived Cancer Cells (UDCC) -- Non-Invasive and Living Liquid Biopsies -- in Bladder Cancer Clinics | Active |
2022 | R21 | CA261643 | CA21-005 | TANG, SINDY KAM-YAN | STANFORD UNIVERSITY | A micro-dissection platform for generating uniform-sized patient-derived tumor organoids (PDOs) for personalized cancer therapy | Active |
2022 | R21 | CA267222 | CA21-003 | LEE, HAKHO | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | 3D Fourier Imaging System for High Throughput Analyses of Cancer Organoids | Complete |
2022 | R21 | CA269099 | CA21-003 | YAKOVLEV, VLADISLAV V | TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | Molecular and cellular imaging of bone biopsies using AI augmented deep UV Raman microscopy | Active |
2022 | R21 | CA272345 | CA21-003 | KNOWLES, DAVID ARTHUR | NEW YORK GENOME CENTER | A CRISPR/Cas13 approach for identifying individual transcript isoform function in cancer | Active |
2022 | R21 | CA257980 | CA21-003 | BELCHER, ANGELA M | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | A cell-cycle induced genetic recorder for simultaneous recovery of cell divisions and lineage | Complete |
2022 | R33 | CA269100 | CA21-004 | CHIU, BRIAN C-H | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | A highly sensitive linear amplification based DNA methylation profiling technique for clinical cancer research | Active |
2022 | R21 | CA272351 | CA21-003 | SOPER, STEVEN ALLAN | UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE | Molecular Sub-typing Breast Cancer Patients using a Liquid Biopsy | Active |
2022 | R33 | CA267226 | CA21-004 | DRAKE, RICHARD R | MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Targeted Isolation and Identification of Sialylated Glycoproteins in Cancer Tissues, Cells and Biofluids | Complete |
2022 | R21 | CA269103 | CA21-003 | BLAINEY, PAUL CLARK | BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. | Stitch-seq for genome-wide pooled genomic screening with RNA-seq readout | Active |
2022 | R33 | CA272357 | CA21-004 | PAN, TAO | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | Transfer RNA sequencing and application to cancer research and clinics | Active |
2022 | R21 | CA267260 | CA21-003 | ARMITAGE, BRUCE A | CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY | Fluorescent gammaPNA Miniprobes for Imaging Telomeric RNA | Complete |