
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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2017 | R21 | CA212827 | RFA-CA-16-001 | WONG, WESLEY PHILIP | BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | Single-molecule mechanical detection of protein and microRNA cancer biomarkers | Complete |
2017 | R21 | CA217751 | RFA-CA-16-003 | NECHAEV, SERGEI | UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | Transcriptome profiling of highly degraded specimens through global analysis of short RNA fragments. | NCE |
2017 | R33 | CA214176 | RFA-CA-16-002 | LU, CHANG | VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV | Next-generation MOWChIP-seq for high-throughput epigenomic profiling using clinically relevant samples | Complete |
2017 | R21 | CA212907 | RFA-CA-16-001 | KARGINOV, ANDREI V | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | Engineered regulation of tyrosine phosphatase activity in living cells | NCE |
2017 | R21 | CA217754 | RFA-CA-16-001 | DICKINSON, BRYAN | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | rePPI-i: A system for the rapid continuous evolution of protein-protein interaction inhibitors | NCE |
2017 | R33 | CA214333 | RFA-CA-16-002 | ZENG, YONG | UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE | Integrated exosomes profiling for minimally invasive diagnosis and monitoring of cancer | Complete |
2017 | R21 | CA212928 | RFA-CA-16-001 | BROCK, AMY | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN | High resolution cell lineage tracking and isolation | NCE |
2017 | R33 | CA202881 | RFA-CA-16-002 | LEVENSON, RICHARD M. | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS | Cancer histology and QC via MUSE: Sample-sparing UV surface-excitation microscopy | Complete |
2018 | R21 | CA229027 | RFA-CA-17-012 | SKARDAL, ALEKSANDER (contact); STROWD, ROY ERVIN | WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES | Predicting Tumor Heterogeneity Evolution After Therapy In Patient-Derived Ex Vivo Glioblastoma Organoids | Complete |
2018 | R21 | CA223915 | RFA-CA-17-010 | KARGINOV, ANDREI V | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | Optogenetic tools for the dissection of oncogenic signaling mediated by kinases | NCE |
2018 | R33 | CA223904 | RFA-CA-17-011 | CIMA, MICHAEL J | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Advanced development and validation of microdevices for high-throughput in situ drug sensitivity testing in tumors | NCE |
2018 | R33 | CA217702 | RFA-CA-17-013 | BORGES, CHAD R | ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS | Validation and Advanced Development of Albumin Oxidizability as a Marker of Plasma/Serum Integrity | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA214285 | RFA-CA-17-010 | MAILLOUX, ADAM WILLIAM | H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST | Autohistomagnetic Isolation of Tumor-reactive T-cells | Complete |
2018 | R33 | CA225539 | RFA-CA-17-011 | JIANG, NING | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN | An integrated therapeutic T cell receptor screening platform for adoptive cell therapy in cancer | Active |
2018 | R33 | CA214310 | RFA-CA-17-013 | INCE, TAN A. | UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | Live Tumor Culture Core and Tissue Specific Culture (TSC) System for Human Cancers | Complete |
2018 | R21 | CA225474 | RFA-CA-17-010 | MEHTA, ANAND S | MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Glyco-typer: an antibody capture glycan imaging methodology | NCE |
2018 | R33 | CA223908 | RFA-CA-17-011 | KONRY, TANIA TALI | NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | Determining treatment sensitivity in B cell lymphoma by novel microfluidics-based NK cell immunogenicity platform | NCE |
2018 | R43 | CA236097 | PAR-18-303 | LIM, MARK | AMBERGEN, INC | Highly Multiplexed Nanoscale Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Cancer Tissues | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA223853 | RFA-CA-17-010 | ROBLES, FRANCISCO E | GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (SRS-SOCT) for label-free molecular imaging of brain tumor pathology | NCE |
2018 | R33 | CA225494 | RFA-CA-17-011 | LIU, YANG | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH | High-throughput super-resolution imaging of chromatin structures at different epigenetic states | NCE |
2018 | R43 | CA236101 | PAR-18-303 | LEE, LY JAMES | NANOMATERIAL INNOVATION, LTD | Molecular Beacons in Lipoplex Nanoparticles for Extracellular Vesicles Based Cancer Diagnosis | Complete |
2018 | R21 | CA228997 | RFA-CA-17-010 | ROYZEN, MAKSIM | STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY | Development of Catch and Release Approach for Multi-Drug Local Delivery of Chemotherapies | Active |
2018 | R33 | CA225863 | RFA-CA-17-011 | LU, JUN | YALE UNIVERSITY | CRISPR-based Enhanced Molecular Chipper Technology for Identifying Functional Noncoding Elements in Cancer | NCE |
2018 | R43 | CA236142 | PAR-18-303 | SCHOETTLE, LOUIS | GEMNEO BIOSCIENCE, INC. | Origami Nanoprobes for Large-Scale Single-Cell Analysis of Lymphocytes | Complete |
2018 | R21 | CA228948 | RFA-CA-17-010 | SCHIBEL, ANNA | ELECTRONIC BIOSCIENCES, INC. | Microsatellite Sequencing to Enable Cancer Genotyping | NCE |
2018 | R33 | CA222344 | RFA-CA-17-011 | SALIPANTE, STEPHEN J | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Advanced development and validation of genome-scale molecular diagnostics for microsatelliteinstability using targeted molecular counting methods | NCE |
2018 | R21 | CA229044 | RFA-CA-17-010 | ABBOTT, KAREN L | UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS | Novel platform linking cancer-specific glycosylation with cell signaling outcomes | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA223715 | RFA-CA-17-010 | SHI, TUJIN | BATTELLE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORIES | An ultrasensitive targeted mass spectrometry system for proteomics analysis of single cells | Active |
2018 | R33 | CA228979 | RFA-CA-17-011 | SCHRUM, ADAM G | UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA | Multiplex matrix ELISA for T cell protein-interaction networks in cancer | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA223901 | RFA-CA-17-010 | BRENT, ROGER | FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | Precision controllers of mammalian gene expression | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA223887 | RFA-CA-17-010 | SMITH, LLOYD M | UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | Novel NeuCode Tagging Reagents for Identification and Quantification of Intact Proteoforms in Cancer Tissues | NCE |
2018 | R33 | CA229023 | RFA-CA-17-011 | TEWARI, MUNEESH (contact); WALTER, NILS G | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR | Optimization and Validation of Single-Molecule Kinetic Fingerprinting Technology for Rapid, Ultra-Specific Detection of Cancer Mutations | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA217735 | RFA-CA-17-010 | ENGLER, ADAM JEFFREY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Developing Adhesome Technology as a Physical Marker of Highly Metastatic Cells | Complete |
2018 | R21 | CA214239 | RFA-CA-17-010 | VAN DEVENTER, JAMES ALLEN | TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD | Discovering hybrid inhibitors for tumor microenvironment disruption | NCE |
2018 | R21 | CA229037 | RFA-CA-17-012 | GULLEY, MARGARET L | UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | EndoGenus Toolkit: A Biometric Method for Absolute Quantification of Tumor Markers by Massive Parallel Sequencing | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA223836 | RFA-CA-17-010 | FIELDS, RYAN C | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | Advancing Cancer Biology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics Outside of the Patient: Creation of a Novel, Autologous, Ex Vivo, Vascularized Model of the Tumor Microenvironment | NCE |
2018 | R33 | CA223947 | RFA-CA-17-011 | BROWN, BRIAN D | ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | Pro-Codes: A novel vector and cell barcoding technology | Active |
2018 | R21 | CA225507 | RFA-CA-17-012 | PAULOVICH, AMANDA G | FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | Validation of a disposable biospecimen collection system with integral refrigeration for preserving the phosphoproteome | NCE |
2018 | R21 | CA229057 | RFA-CA-17-010 | FU, XIAO-AN | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | A microreactor chip platform for quantitative analysis of unsaturated aldehydes in exhaled breath | Active |
2018 | R33 | CA223581 | RFA-CA-17-011 | CHENG, JI-XIN | BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) | Quantitative SRS Imaging of Cancer Metabolism at Single Cell Level | Active |
2019 | R33 | CA235302 | RFA-CA-18-003 | DE VLAMINCK, IWIJN | CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Spatially Resolved Metagenomics to Explore Tumor-Microbiome Interactions in Human Colorectal Cancer | Active |
2019 | R21 | CA223727 | RFA-CA-18-002 | HUANG, XIAOHUA | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Technology for measuring telomere length of individual chromosomes of single cancer cells | NCE |
2019 | R21 | CA240148 | RFA-CA-18-002 | ANGEL, PEGGY M | MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Enzymatic Tools for 2D Tissue Localized and Deeper Proteomic Sequencing of Cancer Stromal Proteins | Active |
2019 | R33 | CA235319 | RFA-CA-18-003 | YANG, JENNY J. | GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Multi-color Mapping of Cancer Molecular Signatures and Tumor microenvironment | Active |
2019 | R21 | CA229069 | RFA-CA-18-002 | WARREN, CHRISTOPHER L | PROTEOVISTA, LLC | SNAP-X: Development of a Mutagenesis Strategy and High Density Protein Array to Comprehensively Display Protein Variants | Active |
2019 | R21 | CA240162 | RFA-CA-18-002 | KEUNG, ALBERT | NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH | Intracellular CRISPR gRNA assembly for massively multiplexed; one pot; (epi)genetic screening | Active |
2019 | R33 | CA235597 | RFA-CA-18-003 | SOPER, STEVEN ALLAN | UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE | Increased Sensitivity of Minimal Residual Disease Monitoring using Peripheral Blood in Pediatric Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | Active |
2019 | R21 | CA235285 | RFA-CA-18-002 | KENTSIS, ALEX | SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH | Multi-dimensional targeted mass spectrometry technology for pathway-scale functional proteomics | Active |
2019 | R21 | CA240199 | RFA-CA-18-002 | O'NEILL, RACHEL | UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS | Development and Utilization of Splice-specific Antibodies | Active |
2019 | R33 | CA236687 | RFA-CA-18-003 | BREUNIG, JOSHUA JOHN | CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | GESTALT Barcoding and Single-cell Transcriptomics of Tumor Cell Evolution in Personalized Tumor Models | Active |