Grants Awarded



Click on any project title for a more detailed description of the project. For more information about any of these awards (e.g., PI contact information or associated publications), please use the corresponding project number to search for information at the NIH Reporter website. Consistent with NIH policy, abstracts are not available for projects receiving their first award within the past year, so descriptions provided below are from the NCI program director.

New awards will be posted as they are issued.

Yearsort descending Award Type Project # RFA # PI/Project Leader Institution Title Status
2017 R33 RFA-CA-16-002 WALTER, MATTHEW J WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY TARGETED SINGLE-MOLECULE SEQUENCING ASSAY INCORPORATING MOLECULAR BARCODES NCE
2017 R21 RFA-CA-16-001 MALMSTADT, NOAH UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A Target-Directed Reagent Pipeline via Microfluidic mRNA Display Complete
2017 R21 RFA-CA-16-001 WINDLE, BRAD E. VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY The GOF Mutant p53 Beacon System Complete
2017 R33 RFA-CA-16-004 ISSADORE, DAVID AARON UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Rapid unbiased isolation and in situ RNA analysis of circulating tumor cells using a magnetic micropore-based diagnostic chip NCE
2017 R33 RFA-CA-16-002 PARKER, LAURIE L. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Fluorescence lifetime-based single fluorophore biosensors of post-translational modification enzyme activity NCE
2017 R21 RFA-CA-16-001 EASWARAN, HARIHARAN JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY High-efficiency microfluidic-assisted single-cell DNA methylome sequencing NCE
2017 R21 RFA-CA-16-003 WELJIE, AALIM M UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Determining and enhancing metabolite fitness for metabolomics measurements Complete
2017 R33 RFA-CA-16-004 PATTENDEN, SAMANTHA GAIL UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL The application of Enhanced Cavitation to enable DNA and Chromatin Extraction from Archived Tissues NCE
2018 R43 PAR-18-303 LEE, LY JAMES NANOMATERIAL INNOVATION, LTD Molecular Beacons in Lipoplex Nanoparticles for Extracellular Vesicles Based Cancer Diagnosis Complete
2018 R21 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 RFA-CA-17-011 LU, JUN YALE UNIVERSITY CRISPR-based Enhanced Molecular Chipper Technology for Identifying Functional Noncoding Elements in Cancer NCE
2018 R43 PAR-18-303 SCHOETTLE, LOUIS GEMNEO BIOSCIENCE, INC. Origami Nanoprobes for Large-Scale Single-Cell Analysis of Lymphocytes Complete
2018 R21 RFA-CA-17-010 SCHIBEL, ANNA ELECTRONIC BIOSCIENCES, INC. Microsatellite Sequencing to Enable Cancer Genotyping NCE
2018 R33 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 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 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 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 RFA-CA-17-010 BRENT, ROGER FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER Precision controllers of mammalian gene expression Active
2018 R21 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 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 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 RFA-CA-17-010 VAN DEVENTER, JAMES ALLEN TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD Discovering hybrid inhibitors for tumor microenvironment disruption NCE
2018 R21 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 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 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 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 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 RFA-CA-17-011 CHENG, JI-XIN BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) Quantitative SRS Imaging of Cancer Metabolism at Single Cell Level Active
2018 R21 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 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 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 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 RFA-CA-17-010 MAILLOUX, ADAM WILLIAM H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST Autohistomagnetic Isolation of Tumor-reactive T-cells Complete
2018 R33 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 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 RFA-CA-17-010 MEHTA, ANAND S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Glyco-typer: an antibody capture glycan imaging methodology NCE
2018 R33 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 PAR-18-303 LIM, MARK AMBERGEN, INC Highly Multiplexed Nanoscale Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Cancer Tissues Active
2018 R21 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 RFA-CA-17-011 LIU, YANG UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH High-throughput super-resolution imaging of chromatin structures at different epigenetic states NCE
2019 R33 RFA-CA-18-003 VAN DAM, ROBERT MICHAEL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Optimization and validation of integrated microscale technologies for low-cost; automated production of PET molecular imaging tracers for cancer research Active
2019 R21 RFA-CA-18-002 WU, YUN STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO Exosome-Protein-microRNA-OneStop (Exo-PROS) biosensor: a new liquid biopsy for cancer screening and early detection Active
2019 R33 RFA-CA-18-003 KETTENBACH, ARMINJA NADINE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Activity based profiling of Phosphoprotein phosphatases in cancer using mass spectrometry-based proteomics Active
2019 R21 RFA-CA-18-004 SINGAMANENI, SRIKANTH WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK AS PROTECTIVE COATING FOR CANCER BIOSPECIMEN PRESERVATION Active
2019 R21 RFA-CA-18-002 ZHU, YAZHEN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Click Chemistry-Mediated Microfluidic Sorting for HCC CTCs Active
2019 R33 RFA-CA-18-003 CHEN, SIDI YALE UNIVERSITY Rapidly scalable platforms for direct in vivo screening of functional drivers in lethal cancers Active
2019 R21 RFA-CA-18-004 ANDRES-MARTIN, LAURA NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION Establishing efficient technologies for ovarian cancer organoid derivation from fresh tumor resections Active
2019 R43 PAR-18-303 KHODAVERDIAN, VARANDT Y. NUPROBE USA, INC. Allele selective enrichment for targeted profiling of rare cancer mutations via low-depth sequencing Complete
2019 R21 RFA-CA-18-002 WEISSLEDER, RALPH MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL Single Circulating Vesicle Analysis for Early Cancer Detection Active
2019 R33 RFA-CA-18-003 TAVANA, HOSSEIN UNIVERSITY OF AKRON A High Throughput Human Tumor Modeling Technology for Cancer Drug Discovery Active

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