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Epidemiology Research Grant

Dora Il’yasova, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Project Title: Individual Response to Low-Dose Radiation

Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Tumor Research Grant

Karen Aboody, MD
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
Duarte, California
Project Title: Cellular MRI tracking of neural stem cells: Pre-clinical study

Sherri Holmen, PhD
Nevada Cancer Institute
Las Vegas, Nevada
Project Title: Molecular targeting of survival signaling cascades activated in glioma

Nick Gonzales GBM Research Grant

Albert Wong, MD
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Project Title: Developing a recombinant bispecific antibody to target glioblastoma cancer stem cells

Frederick F. Lang, MD
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Project Title: Targeting glioma cancer stem cells using bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells

Kyusun Yun, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine
Project Title: A novel biomarker for glioma stem cells and GBM

Shichun Zheng, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Stem cell polycomb repressor gene targets and temozolomide response in glioblastoma

Steven Nimer, MD and Lauren Abrey, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Project Title: Importance of ETS gene expression in glioblastomas

Oligodendroglioma Brain Tumor Research Grant

Kenneth Aldape, MDThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston,Texas
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston,Texas
Project Title: MicroRNAs in oligodendroglioma

Michael F. Lewandowski Oligodendroglioma Grant

Andrew Lassman, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Project Title: Chemotherapy with deferred radiotherapy for treatment naïve anaplastic oligodendroglioma

Claudia Petritsch, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Project Title: Defining key genetic and epigenetic alterations in oligodendroglioma cancer stem cells

Caregiver/Quality of Life Brain Tumor Research Grant

Bart Brigidi, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Project Title: Coping skills training for caregivers with primary malignant brain tumors

Mary Lovely, RN, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Project Title: Lived experience of a long term survivor with a highly malignant brain tumor