News and Updates
Cancer Consortium Pilot Funds Awarded (December 2010)
The FHCRC/UW Cancer Consortium has awarded $300,000 in Pilot Funds to Consortium investigators to support cancer-related pilot projects in calendar year 2011.
2011 Awardees:Jonathan Bricker (FHCRC): Helping Anxious Smokers to Quit: A Pilot Trial of Web-delivered Acceptance Therapy
Qinghua Feng (UW): The role of two novel HPV types in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC)
Jonathan Grim (FHCRC): Determining the feasibility of using marrow transplantation to accelerate leukemia gene discovery by transposon-based insertional mutagenesis
Brian Iritani (UW): Regulation of Cancer Metabolism by the AMPK-interacting Protein Fnip1
Larissa Korde (UW): Effect of Vitamin D and weight loss on breast tissue in overweight/ obese postmenopausal women
Hootie Warren (FHCRC): Regulatory T Cell Repertoire in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
Ray Yeung (UW): Metabolic Plasticity of mTORC1-mediated tumorigenesis
The next round of CCSG Pilot Award RFA’s will be released in fall 2011 for projects beginning in January 2012. All members of the FHCRC/UW Cancer Consortium are eligible to apply.
