Yixuan Gong, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Exploiting Apoptotic Pathways to Enhance Responses of Mutant EGFR-dependent Lung Adenocarcinoma to Kinase Inhibitors
Recipient of the Barbara Parisi Lung Cancer Research Grant.
John Heymach, M.D., Ph.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center: EGFR/estrogen Interactions: Role in Bronchioalveolar Carcinoma and Gender Differences in the Efficacy of Antiangiogenic Therapy
Recipient of the LUNGevity Foundation/Joan’s Legacy Research Grant. Funded equally by Joan's Legacy and the LUNGevity Foundation.
Bingcheng Wang, Ph.D., MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve Medical Center: Harnessing the Intrinsic Tumor Suppressor Activities of EphA2 Kinase for Lung Cancer Therapy
He
Biao, Ph.D., University of California,
San Francisco: Identification of Novel
Wnt Signaling-Related Therapeutic Targets
Against Bronchioalveolar Carcinoma
Ite A. Laird-Offringa, Ph.D., USC/Norris Cancer Center: Epigenetic Alterations During Progression from Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia to Bronchioalveolar Carcinoma and Lung Adenocarcinoma
This grant is being
fully funded by the Thomas G. Labrecque
Foundation, through the Joan’s Legacy
Grant Program.
Edwina
C. Lerner, Ph.D., University of
Pittsburgh: Targeting the X-Linked Gene
Gastrin Releasing Peptide Receptor in Combination
with Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors
in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Viji
Shridhar, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic College
of Medicine: Functional Characterization
of HSulf-1 Loss in Bronchioalveolar Carcinoma
Recipient of the Felice
Lipit Jentis Memorial/Joan’s Legacy
Research Grant. Funded equally by Joan's
Legacy and The Felice Lipit Jentis Memorial
BAC Research Trust.
Masaaki
Tamura, D.V.M., Ph.D., Kansas
State University College of Veterinary Medicine: IFN-Beta Expressing Stem Cell Therapy
for Bronchioalveolar Carcinoma
Dennis
A. Wigle, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D.,
Mayo Clinic: A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
(SNP) Association Study to Investigate the
Genetic Basis of Bronchioalveolar Carcinoma
This grant is being
fully funded by the Thomas G. Labrecque
Foundation, through the Joan’s Legacy
Grant Program.
Charles
A. Powell, M.D., Columbia University: Acquisition of Invasiveness in Lung
Adenocarcinoma
Recipient of the Joan's
Legacy/Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation Lung
Cancer Research Grant. Funded equally by
Joan's Legacy and the Thomas G. Labrecque
Foundation.
Julian
R. Molina, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic
Cancer Center: Molecular Determinants
of Intrapulmonary Dissemination and Metastasis
of Bronchioalveolar Carcinoma (BAC) of the
Lung
Thao
P. Dang, M.D., Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer
Center: Mechanisms of Resistance with Tyrosine
Kinase Inhibitor Targeting the Epidermal Growth
Factor Receptor
Laura
P. Stabile, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh: Targeting the Estrogen Receptor and Epidermal
Growth Factor Receptor in Women Patients with Non-Small
Cell Lung Cancer