Grants Awarded in 2014

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

Omar Abdel-Wahab, M.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Mazhar Adli, Ph.D.

University of Virginia Cancer Center

Ash A. Alizadeh, M.D., Ph.D.

Stanford Cancer Center

Scott Antonia, M.D., Ph.D., Amer Berg, Ph.D., Dung-Tsa Chen, Ph.D.

Moffitt Cancer Center

Nabeel Bardeesy, Ph.D., Cyril Benes, Ph.D., Andrew Zhu, M.D., Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School

Julie E. Bauman, M.D., Ph.D., Jennifer Grandis, M.D., Michelle Ozbun, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Kara Bernstein, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Parveen Bhatti, Ph.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

John Cavanagh, Ph.D.

NC State University Cancer Therapeutic Training Program

Selina Chen-Kiang, Ph.D., Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D., John Leonard, M.D., Peter Martin, M.D., Maurizio DiLiberto, Ph.D.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center

David Cheresh, Ph.D., Razelle Kurzrock, M.D., Karen Messer, Ph.D., Hatim Husain, M.D.

University of California, San Diego, Moores Cancer Center

Ben Croker, Ph.D.

Boston Children’s Hospital

Michael Deininger, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas O’Hare, Ph.D.

University of Utah – Huntsman Cancer Institute

Colin P.N. Dinney, M.D. & David J. McConkey, Ph.D.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Institute

Steven Dubois, M.D.

UCSF Benioff's Children's Hospital

Emily Dykhuizen, Ph.D.

Purdue University Center for Cancer Research

Andrew Feinberg, M.D., MPH, Philip Cole, M.D., Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins Medicine The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Angela Fleischman, M.D., Ph.D.

University of CA, Irvine

Helene Furberg, Ph.D., M.D. & Vijai Joseph, Ph.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute

Wenjun Guo, Ph.D.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Michael C. Heinrich, M.D.

Oregon Health & Science University

Paul J. Hergenrother, Ph.D.

University of Illinois Cancer Center

Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D.

Masschusetts Institute of Technology Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Mohit Jain, M.D., Ph.D.

University of CA, San Diego

Dineo Khabele, M.D.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Randall J. Kimple,. M.D., Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center

Andrew A. Lane, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Calvin Lee, Ph.D.

All Children's Hospital

University of Virginia

Qing Li, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Michigan

Michael B. Major, Ph.D., D. Neil Hayes, M.D., MPH, Gary Johnson, Ph.D.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Megan McNerney, M.D., Ph.D.

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

Mo Motamedi, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital

Sabine Mueller, M.D., Ph.D.

UCSF Benoiff Children's Hospital

Hyman B. Muss, M.D.

UNC Lineberger Cancer Center

Chad V. Pecot, M.D.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Damon Reed, M.D.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Pepper Schedin, Ph.D.

Oregon Health and Science University

Karen Sandell Sfanos, Ph.D.

The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Agnel Sfeir, Ph.D.

New York University Langone Medical Center

Wendy Stock, M.A., M.D., Yusuke Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., Olatoyosi Odenike, M.D.

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

David J. Tweardy, M.D., Michael T. Lewis, Ph.D., Mothaffar F. Rimawi, M.D.

Baylor College of Medicine Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center

Judy Villablanca, M.D.

Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Jessie Villanueva, Ph.D.

The Wistar Institute

Ruoning Wang, Ph.D.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

John S. Welch, M.D., Ph.D.

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University in St. Louis

Kenneth D. Westover, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Omer Yilmaz, M.D., Ph.D.

Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institue of Technology

Weizhou Zhang, Ph.D.

University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center