Grants Awarded in 2013

These researchers are making waves in the field of pancreatic cancer research, which is highlighted in November during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.

Rafael Bejar, M.D., Ph.D.

UCSD Moores Cancer Center

Victoria Belancio, Ph.D.

Tulane University Tulane Cancer Center

Ravi Bhatia, M.D.

Beckman Research Institute City of Hope National Medical Center

Timothy F. Burns, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Ph.D.

University of California, Davis

John Cavanagh, Ph.D.

North Carolina State Jimmy V Cancer Therapeutics Program

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Nika Danial, Ph.D., Margaret Shipp, M.D., Jarrod Marto, Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Ralph Deberardinis, M.D., Ph.D., Kemp Kernstein, M.D., Ph.D.

Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at Universtiy of Texas Southwestern

Maximilian Diehn, M.D., Ph.D.

Stanford Cancer Institute

Robert Doebele, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology

Gianpietro Dotti, M.D., Cliona Rooney, Ph.D., Caridad Martinez, M.D.

Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine

Benjamin L. Ebert, M.D., Ph.D., Ann Mullally, M.D., William Kaelin, Jr., M.D., David Steensma, M.D.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Michael J. Emanuele, Ph.D.

Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

James M. Ford, M.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine

Summer Gibbs, Ph.D.

Oregon Health & Science University

Stuart Goldberg, M.D.

Hackensack University Medical Center The John Theurer Cancer Center

Tanja A. Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., James R. Downing, M.D.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Peter Hammerman, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

John V. Heymach, M.D., Ph.D., Varsha Gandhi, Ph.D., Christine Stellrecht, Ph.D., Carlo Toniatti, M.D., Ph.D., Timothy Heffernan, Ph.D.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Michael Kharas, Ph.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mei Kong, Ph.D.

Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope

Ite A. Laird-Offringa, Ph.D., Barbara Gitlitz, M.D., Martin W. Kast, Ph.D., Kimberly Siegmund, Ph.D., Lina Wang, M.D., Michael Wong, M.D., Ph.D.

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Calvin Lee, M.D.

All Children’s Hospital

Christopher A. Maher, Ph.D.

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University

Daniela Matei, M.D., Kenneth P. Nephew, Ph.D.

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center

Queen of the Valley Medical Center

Queen of the Valley Medical Center

George-Lucian Moldovan, Ph.D.

Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute

Shari Pilon-Thomas, Ph.D.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Zeshaan Rasheed, M.D., Ph.D.

The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Jatin Roper, M.D.

Tufts Medical Center

Bjoern Schwer, M.D., Ph.D.

Boston Children’s Hospital

St. Helena Hospital

St. Helena Hospital

Toshi Tanuiguchi, M.D., Ph.D., Elizabeth M. Swisher, M.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Amit K. Verma, M.D. David J. Prezant, M.D. Mayris Webber, M.P.H., Dr. P.H. Charles B. Hall, Ph.D.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Daniel S. Wechsler, M.D., Ph.D.

Duke University Medical Center

Daniel S. Wechsler, M.D., Ph.D. Catherine P. Lavau, DVM, Ph.D.

Duke University Medical Center

Ryan A. Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Kris C. Wood, Ph.D.

Duke Cancer Institute

Shands Cancer Center University of Florida

Chunling Yi, Ph.D.

Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Georgetown University

Pengbo Zhou, Ph.D., Leonard Salta, M.D., Yao-Tseng Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

Weill Cornell Medical College